Pay hike likely for Clinton County poll workers in November election

LOCK HAVEN, PA – Election day workers in Clinton County are in the offing for a $50 pay hike for their daylong duties in the Nov. 8 election.

County voter registrar Maria Boileau, at the county commissioners’ Monday work session, detailed a plan to make use of state-provided “Election Integrity Funds” to provide for the county’s first pay increase for election day workers since 2003.

Under the proposal, to be voted on by the commissioners on Thursday, precinct judges of elections will see an increase from $150 to $200. Both majority and minority inspectors will see an increase from $145 to $195 per election.

There are 34 voting precincts in the county. Boileau said there are 34 judges, plus 141 poll workers, including the majority and minority inspectors. She noted there is still a need for a few more poll workers and said training will be provided. Commissioner Jeff Snyder expressed the hope the pay hike will “help the county fill any vacancies.”

Boileau said the pay hike will cost the county $9,000 for each election, but with $112,000 in the Election Integrity money flowing to the county, that amount will be covered.

Election day work hours are from 6 a.m. to beyond 8 p.m. (polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.).

As of Monday, Boileau reported, there are 21,881 registered voters in the county. Of that amount, 12,059 are Republicans and 6,952 Democrats; also 2,729 others, 115 Libertarians, and 26 Green Party. She said in response to some 1,800 mail-in ballot requests, those ballots would go into the mail on Monday.

She said the county again is providing a mail-in ballot box receptacle in front of the county’s Piper Building; she said it is checked several times each day. October 24 is the last day to register to vote and Nov. 1 the last date to request a mail-in ballot, according to the registration director.