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Board of Elections relocation raises machine‑storage and workflow concerns
Summary
Board of Elections commissioners told the committee the county needs a permanent space that accommodates voting machines for testing, programming, absentee ballot scanning and tabulation; splitting office functions across sites would increase time, expense and risk of errors, they said.
Alana Congdon and Elizabeth Livesey, representing the Tompkins County Board of Elections, told the Government Operations Committee on Aug. 7 that any relocation strategy must account for voting‑machine storage, programming, testing and ballot scanning functions.
Operational constraints and machine handling
Livesey said the office’s equipment is…
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