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La Salle County has urgent need for election judges · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Salle County has urgent need for election judges Written by Tom Collins.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice, brought to you
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  by Everlet. The La Salle County Clerk's Office is appealing for new
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  election judges to offset a shortage that could affect roughly a quarter
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  of the county's precinct Thursday, the clerk office issued an email asking
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  for judges
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  to fill vacancies at nearly thirty precincts. While registered Democrats are needed
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  to serve as judges near Leland, Adams Precinct II, and in Mendota
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  Precinct IV, the clerk has a much greater need for registered Republicans.
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  We are still severely short on election judges to open properly on
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  Tuesday, Clerk Jennifer Ebner reported. We need thirty-three Republicans and two Democratic
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  judges as of october twenty eighth, twenty twenty six. This does not
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  account for those that will be calling off in the next six
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  days, including call-offs on Election Day. Republican judges are needed in 27
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  precincts. These include LaSalle, Precincts 3, 7, 8, and 9, Cedar Point
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  Eden Precinct 2, Oglesby, LaSalle Precincts 11, 13, and 14, Marseille, Multiple
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  Manleus Precincts, and Ottawa, Multiple Precincts plus South Ottawa 1. Election judges
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  are paid. The per diem rate is three hundred dollars per day
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  with bonuses twenty dollars for taking the class, ten dollars for taking
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  the test, and stipends for accepting ancillary duties such as picking up
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  and returning the supplies. Interested persons may call 815-434-8201,
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  visit the clerk's office in person, or visit.