By David Fenker
david@nmpaper.com
WABASH COUNTY, Ind. – The Wabash County Clerk’s Office will soon be purchasing around $30,000 worth of polling equipment.
The three-year contract was unanimously approved by the county commissioners at the board’s Monday, Oct. 23, meeting, and totals $32,279 for 13 new poll pads, the associated
hardware and software, and three years of maintenance. Here is County Clerk, Elaine Martin, with more:
Martin said that the new equipment was needed to replace the county’s current poll pads, purchased in 2014.
Martin noted that the county council had already approved the use of the funds, and that County Attorney Steve Downs approved the contract.
In other news, Chief Deputy Tyler Guenin of the Wabash County Sheriff’s Department provided the weekly jail report, saying that there were 93 inmates in the Wabash County Jail, with an additional 47 being held in Miami County, two in Elkhart County and four in Blackford County.
Of those, Guenin said, 20 were new book-ins.