The State Board of Elections is still struggling with a backlog of unaudited campaign finance reports because it can not find two people with the expertise to do the work.
The jobs offer a salary as high as $48,000 annually, but the catch is they expire Dec. 31, 2008. Lawmakers, when they created three auditing positions last year, made them temporary, Dan Kane reports.
That caveat has created huge problems for the board. So far, it has only been able to hire one employee who still remains. Two others left last spring for permanent positions. Two postings of the jobs have not produced enough qualified candidates.
"They are decent paying jobs," said Kim Strach, the board's campaign finance director. "It's just that people want some stability."
Elections director Gary Bartlett said he had asked lawmakers to make the positions permanent in this year's budget so the board can catch up on the campaign filings and not fall behind again, but lawmakers did not take up the request.
He thanked lawmakers for seeing the problem in the first place and trying to address it, but "we just need some permanency."
Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated the date.
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