Dec 28, 2020
Designated Lawrence County Government Center workers work diligently together opening mail-in ballots and flattening them to prepare them for counting. FILE | NEWS
The trials and tribulations of the highly contested 2020 presidential election will go down as one to remember in Lawrence County.
The most significant factor was that Lawrence Countyâs staff and poll workers did a seamlessly orchestrated job in completing all of the tasks under new laws to make the countyâs part of the election a success, said Ed Allison, county elections director who held the baton over the process.
This election was a pricey endeavor, as state regulations changed and cost the county taxpayers thousands of dollars to comply with new and expensive voting equipment, the hiring of additional staff to handle thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots that were new to the process this year, the purchase of protective equipment to keepÂ