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Lyon County elections office says VVPAT printers must be replaced; estimates $100k–$150k for upgrade
Summary
Lyon County elections staff told commissioners July 17 that vendor-embedded barcodes on VVPAT paper records and recent guidance from the Secretary of State mean the county must replace or reconfigure its ballot-printing equipment ahead of the 2026 elections.
Lyon County Treasurer and elections official presented the county’s options for replacing the paper vote-record printers (VVPAT) used with Dominion ballot-marking devices and outlined costs, operational trade-offs and outstanding reimbursement questions from state and federal authorities.
County elections staff said the current setup uses an ImageCast X ballot-marking device (ICX) with a separate infrared VVPAT roll that prints a voter-verified paper record. The Secretary of State has advised counties that the VVPAT format is obsolete for the 2026 election cycle because it embeds a barcode that the state says cannot remain on the paper record. Dominion, the county’s vendor, will not remove the barcode, the county said.
The county’s options include: (1) replace only the VVPAT roll printers with a durable commercial printer (lower cost); (2) replace machines with a full new ballot-marking and tabulation…
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