Extension Communications Extension 4-H Youth Building Ames, Iowa 50011-3630 (515) 294-9915

12/12/03

Contacts:
Paul Coates, Political Science, (515) 294-1844, paulc@iastate.edu
Del Marks, Continuing Education and Communication Services, (515) 294-9807, delmarks@iastate.edu

County Resident(s) Attend(s) Election Administrator Training

_______(Name(s))________ of _______(County)____ County is (are) among 140 Iowans from across the state who recently attended the third session of the Iowa State Election Administrators Training (SEAT). The session was held in Des Moines on Nov. 18.

The SEAT session was the third in a series that started in August 2002 through the joint efforts of the Iowa State County Auditors Association and the office of Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver. The program is open to local officials who work with elections, and is designed to insure that the citizens of Iowa have well administered elections that are fair and accurate, according to Paul Coates, ISU Extension political scientist.

The program is coordinated through the Office of State and Local Government Programs operated by Iowa State University Extension as part of the Public Policy and Administration Program at ISU. The program is coordinated by Coates and by Alan Vandehaar, ISU Extension community development field specialist.

Topics at the third session included making polls accessible to voters, administration of party primaries and nominations, and the purchase of voting equipment. Costs of the training were paid by the Secretary of State's Office from funds received from the Help America Vote Act passed by the United States Congress.

Election workers who complete 50 hours of training in the SEAT program are eligible for certification as election administrators. Coates said Iowa is a national leader in the development of a professional certification program for election administrators at the state and county level.

A list of participants in the third session is provided below, by county of residence.

Allamakee - Mary O'Neill
Appanoose - Linda Demry
Audubon - Diana Munch, Lisa Frederiksen, Joni Hansen
Black Hawk - Grant Veeder and Kyle Jensson
Boone - Phil Meier and Molley Ketchum
Bremer - Marilyn Schnell
Buchanan - Maureen Even
Buena Vista - Karen Strawn
Calhoun - Judy Howrey and Belinda Ludwig
Carroll - Joan Schettler
Cherokee - Sheryl Paul
Clay - Gina Ean, Marjorie Pitts andAudrey Coffman
Clayton - Dennis Freitag
Crawford - Cecilia Fineran
Delaware - Sharon McCrabb
Des Moines - Carol Copeland
Dickinson - Nancy Reiman
Dubuque - Tom O'Neill
Franklin - Michelle Giddings
Fremont - Lucille Hunt
Grundy - Mary Schmidt
Guthrie - Gwen Blass and Janet Dickson
Hamilton - Kim Schaa, Sue Johnston, and Lori Reed
Hancock - Debra Bellinghausen
Hardin - Renee McClellan
Iowa - Linda Griggs
Jackson - Mike Cotton
Jasper - Judy Ogier
Johnson - Tom Slockett
Keokuk - Christy Bates and LuAnn Linder
Kossuth - Joann Bormann
Lee - Denise Fraise, Cindy Renstrom, Tammy Myers and Anne Pedersen
Linn - Sue Wold
Mahaska - Kay Swanson and Teresa Paige
Marshall - Dawn Williams and Cindy Reutzel
Mills - Carol Robertson
Monona - Benita J. Davis
Montgomery - Connie Magneson
Muscatine -- Leslie Soule
Osceola - Barb Echter
Page - Judy Clark
Palo Alto - Carmen Moser and Gary Leonard
Plymouth - Kae Meyer
Pottawattamie - Marilyn Jo Drake, Carolyn Stender, Gary Herman and Beth Towne
Story - Mary Mosiman and Dani Dunham
Taylor - Bonny Baker
Wapello - Kelly Spurgeon
Wayne - Sue Ruble and Dixie Ahrenkiel
Woodbury - Laura Pottebaum, Victoria Ritz and Patrick F. Gill

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