By Dave Baumeister, County Correspondent
SIOUX FALLS – For the past 10 years, Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz has performed his duties around one main philosophy, “I’m greedy about ballots. I want to get every one in that counts. Every one! And let the chips fall where they may.”
As auditor, Litz is the person in charge of all elections in the county, whether they be at the national, state, county city or school level.
Even on Saturday, as the general election gets closer, Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz works to process the thousands of ballot requests received by his office. (Photo by Dave Baumeister)
Although he does point out that work he does for the City of Sioux Falls and area school districts is not actually part of his job description.
And that makes Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken’s latest decree, that the county will not be allowed to put ballot drop boxes at the local Siouxland Libraries, hard to take.
While the county runs the libraries, according to Litz, the city owns the land they are on.
This issue came up after the auditor told Minnehaha County Commissioners about his hopes to purchase 15 drop boxes for absentee ballots to be placed around the county, mainly at the libraries.
Litz said he had not planned to talk to the mayor or city council about it until he had more information about the type of boxes which would be the most secure, as well as other arrangements.
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