# Vigo County clerk wins $300,000 for records digitization and higher pay for election-day workers

## What happened
The county clerk's office won approval to raise election-day worker pay from $175 to $250 a day. The committee also approved an additional $200,000 from Fund 8895 and $100,000 from Fund 8899 to keep scanning old court records — some dating back to the 1800s — that have never been digitized.

## The outcome
Approved on voice votes.

## Sources
- [Clerk requests $200,000 more for digitization and a pay raise for election workers, 56:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3364)
- [Election-day pay raised from $175 to $250 a day, 56:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3389)
- [Committee approves the clerk's fund requests, 57:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3444)
- [$200,000 from Fund 8895 approved for the digitization project, 1:00:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3628)
- [$100,000 from Fund 8899 approved for scanning court records, 1:02:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3748)
- [Records date back to the 1800s, 1:02:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=3773)

*Also known as: clerk digitization project · election day worker pay · fund 8895 · fund 8899 · court records scanning*