MILTON, Ga. — With advanced voting for its municipal election two months away, the City of Milton has cemented all poll worker hires. Offer letters went out Aug. 4.
There will be a total of 43 poll workers for Milton’s first self-conducted local election, where three City Council Post 2 seats are up for grabs. Three poll managers, six assistant poll managers and more than 30 poll clerks have been hired, and their wages were approved at the council meeting Aug. 7.
Poll managers were hired first. Two of them helped Milton’s election team of City Manager Steve Krokoff, Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis and City Clerk Tammy Lowit make selections on the other positions.
While Vernetta Nuriddin, the city’s election consultant, was initially expected to help hire poll workers for the election, Krokoff said she did not participate in the process.
Krokoff also serves as the city’s elections superintendent. Lowit will serve as the absentee ballot clerk and will likely share the position of deputy elections superintendent and deputy ballot clerk with Inglis.
More than half of all the poll workers are Milton residents, and only three are coming in without election experience. Krokoff said he made sure to choose individuals with know-how for the first go-around, though he said he’s open to hiring individuals with less experience for future city elections.
“This wasn’t that opportunity for us,” Krokoff said.
One manager had more than a decade in the role, he said, but all the managers and assistant managers have served within those roles previously. An Open Records request for their applications was not completed at press time.
“The managers were selected entirely based on their experience, and they were already providing us a tremendous amount of assistance,” Krokoff said.
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