Dallas County Wasted Taxpayer Money on Unsecure Voting EquipmentPoor planning by the county’s top election official is costing Dallas taxpayers millions and jeopardizing election security.By Erin Anderson
January 20, 2020Tweet this:
“We’re going to try to do the best we can, but there’s no perfect election," said Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole on the race to replace unsecure e-pollbooks ahead of March primaries. #Primary2020 #TX2020 #TXLegeDallas County taxpayers are shelling out another $6 million for new voting equipment, after the county discovered components bought just last year can’t be used securely—a costly mistake one local official blames on the head of the county’s elections department.
In 2019, the county spent $30 million on a brand-new voting system; it included “hybrid†electronic voting machines with paper backups, plus electronic pollbooks used to access the county’s list of registered voters. But the county has since discovered the pollbooks can’t interface securely with the voting machines and must be replaced.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole asked the commissioners court at their last meeting for $388,000 to add 300 more electronic pollbooks to a December order of 4,200 units, bringing the total spent on the replacement equipment to just over $6 million.
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