Should the deputy director of the Portage County Board of Elections really be saying that about workers?
May 4–Partisan proposals for cost-cutting at the Summit County Board of Elections ended in deadlocks this morning. Each side voted for its proposal and against the other party’s. The two Republican board members voted in favor of a plan that included axing 18 full- or part-time jobs. The two Democratic members cast votes for a measure that included no job cuts. Now it’s up to Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to decide whether she wants to break either tie. “I think she has [weighed in on budget matters involving boards] in some cases and in some cases she hasn’t,” Democrat Wayne Jones, a member of the elections board, said after the meeting. The cost-cutting debate began earlier this year after Republican board member Brian Daley did an analysis that showed the Summit board’s staffing costs far exceeding those of nine other large Ohio counties. In response, Bryan Williams , the board’s deputy director and a Republican, last month recommended trimming nearly $1 million from the
Lois Enlow, deputy director of the Portage County Board of Elections, said workers scurried to get a Streetsboro polling place open on time after having to track down someone to unlock a door. Fast-thinking poll workers ”even took their oaths outside in the cold,” while waiting at the site at the Camelot Village mobile home park. ”We have resourceful people,” Enlow said. ”They had their machines up by 6:30 a.m.,” when voting begins, she said. Sources: http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/69002322.
