Municipalities' ethics boards often can't investigate mayors because mayors appointed their members. Niles is trying a new tack, an elected ethics board, but it have only advisory powers, like most appointed ethics boards.
In this week s Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud, Sharpie markers cannot be used on ballots and more.
Officials are specifically targeting high school and college students to apply to be election judges and polling place technicians during the Nov. 8 gubernatorial general election.