Sunset

The county clerk wanted a one-on-one w/ each of the municipal clerks so we arranged for a meeting this afternoon.  Because our township received "gold stars" for the last three elections, the county clerk spent most of the time discussing the GAB-190 form's new section on the cost of the election. She had a printout listing each county  and the percent of their annual election budget used on just the last election. Amounts ranged from 3% to 100%. It's pretty obvious that costs aren't being reported in the same way across the state. (I bet the state will report the amount spent on an election as if it was a "real" number though.)   Since the state already gets the actual amount spent by each municipality at the end of the year in the "dreaded CT form", I asked why the state couldn't use that number and split it up depending on how many elections there were that year. Simple for everyone - we already report it and the state already has it. However, that would invalidate the need for someones new pet form and that's not going to happen.