Around the region, those in charge of election results said it will mostly be business as usual, in spite of the extra drama of this year’s presidential campaign.

Norway Town Clerk Shirley Boyce said that while there will be more personnel at the voting booths on Election Day, it can be attributed to a higher voter turnout and not an attempt to combat voter fraud.

“We’re just going to do what we always do,” Boyce said. “(Voter fraud) has never been an issue for us in the past.”

Donna Diconzo, the municipal registrar in West Paris, said that the idea of voter fraud occurring in her town on Election Day was “ridiculous.”

“In Maine, (voters) have to show their ID to register to vote, so if they’re not registered, they don’t get a ballot,” Diconzo said. “I run a tight ship around here. It’s not happening here.”

She said that occasionally, a resident or two will come into the Town Office and crack a joke about voter fraud, but there haven’t been any serious queries about someone committing fraud at this year’s election.

She added that West Paris, which has a population just under 2,000, is a small enough town that she and the other office employees recognize everyone who votes.

“We’re going to do what we do every year,” Diconzo said.

“I feel very confident in our voting staff,” Jay Town Clerk Ronda Palmer said.

“We have paper backup,” she said. “We test our voting machines. I don’t think the state of Maine has anything to worry about. I think we do a good job. I am very comfortable with the election process in Maine.”

“We’re trying to be very careful with the absentee ballots by processing everything as soon as it comes in to make sure nothing gets lost in the shuffle,” said Andover Town Clerk Melinda Averill.

She said that the town would have extra people working Election Day.

“We usually don’t have to worry about fraud and I don’t know how it’s possible,” she said. “The state of Maine does a lot to make sure elections are safe. I don’t think Maine has a reputation of having voter fraud.”

In Canton, Administrative Assistant Scotty Kilbreth suggested that the press was largely responsible for the hysteria over the elections.

“It’s you media types that are drumming this up,” Kilbreth said. “Political speech allows (politicians) to say whatever they want and people are not concerned about fraud. These aren’t issues that are concerning the average American. We could not make the ballots more secure. These ballots are locked up under the guard of myself and my deputy.”

Kilbreth said it was an insult to think that there could be fraud involved in the voting process.

Wilton Town Clerk Diane Dunham plans to be at the polls all day for this election. Voting takes place downstairs at the Town Office, so she is usually in the building but is in and out of the polling center.

With about 2,800 registered voters, most people are fairly well-known by her ballot clerks. One has worked the elections since Kennedy was running and another since the 1980s, she said. Two have been with her for about five years. She has no plans to add more clerks — other than herself.

She expects the rules to be followed.

“Anyone who knows me knows I’m the rule queen,” she said.

Farmington Town Clerk Leanne Dickey also is not planning anything different for this year’s election.

“We follow the rules of the secretary of state,” she said.

She is not using any extra clerks. Someone is posted at the voting box at all times.

Because of the expected large turnout, voting has moved from the basement to the gymnasium at the Farmington Community Center.

In Livermore, Town Clerk Renda Guild said this year “everyone will be watching the election.”

The election in Livermore is secure, she said.

Every town has to be on guard this year, Guild said. “We have to be on our game. We’ll be verifying each and every request for absentee ballots.” If duplicate requests are found, the state is notified.

She verifies all absentee ballot requests, which are popular this year. Guild and Registrar of Voters Krista White are the only two handling ballot requests. Newly registered voters must show proof of identification and address.

Paris Town Clerk Elizabeth Knox said, “I don’t believe that as the town clerk that there is any fraud in Paris. Now, I can’t speak for other towns or states, but we have a check and balance that is done when the residents are voting absentee, and there will be a check and balance at the polls also.”

In Newry, Administrator Amy Bernard said the town will hire more counters and provide additional staffing to hand-count the ballots. The town will ask for identification from anyone registering to vote on Election Day, she said.

In Woodstock, Town Manager Vern Maxfield said, “We haven’t changed our policies. I think we keep a pretty close eye on what’s going on; we know most of the people who come and go, and we do verify.”

The same is true in Oxford, where Town Clerk Elizabeth Olsen said, “No, nothing out of the ordinary. We are following all state statutes on conducting an election, which is what we are mandated to do.”