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Collin County OKs purchase of ballot-image redaction tool after staff cites time, cost of manual redaction
Summary
Commissioners voted 5-0 to authorize procurement of a redaction tool to prepare ballot images for public release after the county's elections administrator said manual redaction of 2024 ballots would take months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Collin County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to approve procurement of a ballot-image redaction tool to prepare election images for public release, County Elections Administrator Caleb Breaux told the court.
Breaux said the county sought legal guidance after statewide attorney-general opinions indicated ballot images may need redaction before public release. He recommended using a commercial redaction tool used by neighboring counties and said the vendor would provide a secured, cloud-hosted redaction system that would be handed off to the county…
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