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Taxes Election EIS Committee approves five-year voter registration contract with Governmental Business Systems

5789875 · August 14, 2025
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The Taxes Election EIS Committee voted Aug. 14 to award a five-year contract to Governmental Business Systems to provide a new voter registration system; staff said state grant funds will reimburse initial startup costs and the system is expected to be installed in September.

The Taxes Election EIS Committee on Aug. 14 voted to award a five-year contract to Governmental Business Systems (GBS) to provide a new voter registration system for LaSalle County.

Brooke Abner, a staff member who presented the bids, told the committee that GBS offered a five-year contract with no price increase during those first five years and a total five-year cost of $370,000. Abner said the county’s current, annual voter-registration cost is $27,000. “We should be reimbursed the entire 98,000, of the initial start up and first year costs, next summer,” Abner said, and she added that she had budgeted $183,500 for the system in the 2024–25 budget, leaving about $85,500…

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