Utah County OKs election job title

PROVO — After November's vote-counting debacle, the Utah County commissioners have made some changes in the county's election-coordination office.

Commissioners expressed surprise that there is so much interest in what they call a routine change to an employee's job description and title.

On Tuesday, the commissioners approved a job that will oversee the county's elections.

The new title for the job formerly held by Kris Swensen is tax and elections supervisor.

Other minor shifts in the elections office were also approved. Swensen plans to leave the county's employ to work for Salt Lake County.

Commissioners said Swensen was not to blame for the computer programming error that initially dropped 33,000 straight-party votes from the individual candidate tallies. Commissioners deny the changes in staffing in the election office has anything to do with the glitch during November's general election.