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Secretary of State asks for $2.5 million to upgrade voter-registration and campaign-finance systems
Summary
Secretary of State Warner and staff told the Senate Finance Committee that a $2.5 million one-time appropriation would allow the office to replace aging vendor systems for voter registration and campaign finance, secure source code access and avoid drawing down special-revenue reserves used for election infrastructure.
Secretary of State Warner and senior staff told the Senate Finance Committee on Feb. 13, 2025, that the office seeks a one-time $2.5 million appropriation to buy and implement new voter-registration and campaign-finance systems and to obtain source code access from a vendor.
“That's the 2 and a half million dollars,” Donald Kersey, chief of staff to the secretary of state, said during his presentation of the office's technology and modernization priorities. Kersey said the office has a vendor currently in breach of contract since 2019 and argued the state should own the source code for critical election systems so staff can maintain, patch and secure the systems in perpetuity.
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