Rushed to make this right, and kim, everyone is now getting their money. Reporter and martha, if you look behind me, right there on the door of the Orange County elections office, says closing time is 5 p. M. , but you can see the 11 00hour, the lights are still on as staff worked late tonight to correct this payroll problem. Now, the supervisor of elections tells me the screw up and the bad checks didnt happen here, but its still on him to fix it. Election day was supposed to be payday for 1,400 Orange County poll workers, but problems at the polling precinct turned into problems at the bank. Those checks bounced. Its the worst election ive ever worked for. Reporter workers who have been doing this like beverly for 20 years, lined up to get new checks. A sort of drivethru system to get people paid. Coming down here, they didnt free, and my time is still valuable. I worked very hard yesterday. Inside, the Office Another late night to fix a problem supervisor of elections bill cowles bl
But for some reason, the venn tor, adp, didnt put the funds and all the checks boupsed. Around noon bounced. Around noon, he got the call, and for hours hes been trying to make it right by the people who helped him last night. The supervisor of Elections Office told us that theyre actually the only one in the area that cut checks the day of. Usually, theyre stoent the workers and it takes two weeks. Bill is in his office, hes handwriting the checks, he is going to address the media tonight and just the next half hour or so. He is writing those checks and along with those, he is writing a apology notes. Butler, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Not a good day for him. Meanwhile, elections supervisor was also trying to figure out who made the mistake on the ballot printing which creating the shortage at a number of precincts. The supervisor says it was a simple clerical error that precincts to run out of ballots. Today, demonstrators say we shouldnt have those kinds of problems in 2016. There n