School Elections

Tuesday were school elections and I survived my first one.  I had to work from 8:00 am and we finished at 11:00 pm. 

The only election that we had to do was for Hardin, the other school districts ran their own.  All we had to do for them was print out the voter registers and answer their questions.  It went smooth.

Hardin did a mail ballot, so every voter in the Hardin school district received a ballot.  This year there was a mill levy request for spending authority of more money and in one zone for trustee.

We mailed the ballots three weeks before the election and received a majority of them back right away, then there was a trickle.  About three days before we got alot of ballots back.  We couldn't count them until after 8:00 pm.  Had to give the voters time to get their ballots in.  Found out that for next year, we can count ballots early on the mail in election if we advertise two weeks before to give the voters notice.

We had to hand count all the ballots, we had received over 1200.  Four clerks from the district office came to help count which was a big help.  The mill levy failed by 31 votes.  Last year the mill levy failed by 22. 

It was a learning process for me and school elections are every year.  At least we have it down that we can count ballots early for next year with proper notification.  We are still getting ballots in the mail after the election.  Can't count those.