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Resolution thanking George Kerkhove for his years of service to the Lake County Clerk’s Office and to the election judges of Lake County.
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WHEREAS , George F. Kerkhove of Green Oaks has served Lake County as an Election Judge in his home precinct Libertyville 167 since his retirement as a certified public accountant and has consistently exhibited great care to deliver quality service, exceptional accuracy and a positive experience to the voters he served;
WHEREAS, George Kerkhove’s interest in and commitment to the electoral process and concern for the individual voter’s rights resulted in his thoughtful written report of his first election judge experience and suggestions on areas for training or emphasis;
WHEREAS, George Kerkhove was invited to complete additional training as a Ballot Box Judge, Field Representative and Site Manager, and he accepted these requests and provided a reliable replacement judge for his precinct by recruiting his wife Linda who has served admirably in precinct 167;
WHEREAS, George Kerkhove energetically assisted with on-going comprehensive efforts to enhance equality and accessibility to voting, and he greatly aided the Lake County Clerk’s office in providing excellent service to voters and recruited friends and colleagues from his church to serve as roving Technical Representatives as optical scan voting was introduced;
WHEREAS, George Kerkhove with great skill and patience assisted other Election Judges and all voters, and agreed to become a training instructor for introductory training classes for new Election Judges in Lake County, and he has taught or worked alongside nearly half of Lake County’s thousands of election workers and aided in training other Election Judge training instructors and build a comprehensive hands-on segment for the new judges;
WHEREAS, George Kerkhove has introduced elections to many hundreds of high school student Election Judges and prepared them to understand election laws, security p...
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