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Dallas County Court presses ES&S over decertified poll book, asks for expedited third‑party testing and contingency plans
Summary
Dallas County Commissioners Court questioned ES&S representatives about a poll‑book software version the Texas Secretary of State has decertified, asked for accelerated third‑party testing, and directed staff to explore fallback options ahead of spring municipal elections.
Dallas County Commissioners Court members pressed representatives of Election Systems & Software (ES&S) on Jan. 7 over a poll‑book software version the Texas Secretary of State has decertified and demanded rapid testing and contingency planning ahead of May municipal elections.
The issue matters because county elections rely on electronic poll books for early voting and Election Day check‑in. Commissioners said they could not risk running uncertified software in a large county and ordered ES&S and county elections staff to accelerate regression and third‑party usability testing and to develop fallback options if the product is not certified by March.
At the hearing, ES&S described the technical cause of the November check‑in problem as a timing/latency issue in the acceptance/print workflow. ES&S said it implemented a temporary workaround during the November election and has built a permanent fix that will disable repeated presses of the…
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