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Dallas County elections officials to review e‑pollbook glitches and poll‑worker payroll errors; award transport contract
Summary
After technical problems with e‑pollbooks and recurring payroll/payment issues for poll workers, the court approved a five‑year contract for transportation of election equipment and asked elections staff to fix payroll processes and PARS contributions.
Dallas County elections staff told the commissioners court on June 25 that the county’s new e‑pollbook system and the payroll process for poll workers produced multiple operational issues during the May election, and commissioners approved a new five‑year agreement for transport of election equipment.
The county elections administrator (referred to in court as Garcia) said connectivity problems occurred between e‑pollbooks and printers and that some devices logged issues showing judges proceeded to print despite “paper not in” error messages. The county will work with the vendor to analyze logs and identify training or hardware fixes. Staff said the county will…
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