The Village of Benton is a body corporate and politic with the
powers of a municipality at common law and governed by the provisions
of Chs. 61 and 66, Wis. Stats., laws amending those chapters, other
acts of the legislature and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin.
The voting polls in the Village of Benton, Lafayette County,
Wisconsin, shall be opened from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for all elections.
The polling place shall be the Benton Village office.
The official Village newspaper shall be the Tri-County Press,
to be used for the publication of legal and/or official notices and
documents when publication is used instead of posting as allowed by
Wisconsin law.
Pursuant to Wisconsin Statutes, there is hereby established
one set of election officials to conduct all elections in the Village
of Benton, and shall consist of not less than one inspector, one ballot
clerk and one clerk of election deemed sufficient to handle the vote.
However, the Village Clerk-Treasurer shall have the power to limit
the number of election officials and to employ election workers in
shifts. The Village Clerk-Treasurer shall determine in advance of
each general and special election whether the number of election officials
for such election should be reduced from the number prescribed by
the Wisconsin Statutes and, if such a reduction is so determined,
the Village Clerk-Treasurer shall further redistribute duties among
remaining officials.