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to," Dent replied. "I'm personally in support of it as well." Already, Dent noted, a number of other counties have used voting by mail in one-is- sue referenda. During her presentation, Dent also pointed out that the Sarasota County School Board's March referendum for continuation of the special 1-mill tax — which was approved — "was the lowest-priced standalone election that we have done in my whole tenure." (This was her 14th appearance before the commis- sion to present her office's budget, she said at the outset of her remarks.) The $400,000 expense for that referendum, she added, was a result of the countywide redis- tricting approved by the commission in 2012, when the number of precincts was reduced from 156 to 99. "I'm hoping that the trend [of lower expenses] is going to continue." The slight uptick in the proposed budget for the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Office in the 2015 fiscal year is related to the November elections. Image courtesy Supervisor of Elections Sarasota News Leader July 4, 2014 Page 79