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QUESTION: Are county commissioners authorized to permit the use of county-owned voting machines by organizations other than municipalities located within the county?

SUMMARY: Unless some public purpose will be served by such use, the county's voting machines should not be loaned to a private nonprofit corporation or to a school in connection with classroom projects. You state that the board of county commissioners of Clay County has for a number of years allowed a nonprofit private organization — the Clay Cooperative Power Company — to use its voting machines to elect their trustees. The board…