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| Federal prisoner program eyed in financial crisis |
| By daily-journal.com- Jon Krenek |
| Published: 07/13/2015 |
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There's a list of nearly 100 tasks Kankakee County Clerk Bruce Clark's office has to complete prior to an election — with some of them taking weeks to finish. But his office has lost more than a third of its personnel during the past five years as it shrunk from 15 to nine employees. If $200,000 can't be found to meet the requirements of a new state voter registration law, the only option the clerk's office will have is to cut its staff again. That would mean fewer clerks with the added task of registering voters at every single polling place to comply with the law. "I think people like to see cuts in government, but I don't see how we can do that responsibly," Clark said. "We expect voters to have a good experience when they vote on election day. People can't wait 30 minutes in line." Read More. |
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