BY CALEB BEDILLION |BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COMLee County Circuit Clerk Camille Roberts discusses precinct consolidation with the Board of Supervisors Monday morning. By CALEB BEDILLION DAILY JOURNAL TUPELO – Lee County election officials are once again pushing a plan to reduce the number of voting precincts within the county. Circuit Clerk Camille Roberts and the county’s election commissioners have unveiled an updated consolidation plan, one that calls for bringing 38 voting precincts down to 26 precincts. That’s a minor change to a plan Roberts presented to Lee County Supervisors last June that called for the elimination of 13 rather than 12 precincts. According to Roberts and District 1 Election Commissioner Carl Patterson, reducing precincts will save the county money on multiple fronts. The county’s ballot scanners, for example, are just over 20 years old and increasingly difficult to repair. “Sooner or later, we are going to have to buy new scanners,” Roberts told the Lee County Board of Supervisors Monday morning. Once voters in Lee County mark a paper ballot, that ballot is inserted into a scanning machine that records the voter’s selections. This allows for faster election results and bypasses the need for a manual count of ballots. The current scanners, however, were purchased second-hand from Columbus and are prone to break down.
Election Commissioners Present Plan For Precinct Consolidation
Caleb Bedillion, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Tue, 04/18/2017 - 7:12am
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Topics: Mississippi Lee County Tupelo
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