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Secretary of State requests $20 million SVRS modernization, seeks continued election cyber and outreach funding
Summary
The Secretary of State's office presented a budget request that would maintain voter-outreach and election-cybersecurity funding, increase university oversight funding and pursue a $20 million, four-year project to modernize the statewide voter registration and election-management system (SVRS).
Office representatives told the committee the secretary's budget seeks small general-fund increases for employer-costs, continued funding for voter outreach ($750,000) and the election cybersecurity program (about $3.18 million), and a capital request to modernize the statewide voter registration/election-management system (SVRS) at an estimated $20 million over four years.
The office said the SVRS began as a voter-registration database and has…
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