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Lake County renews DFM Associates contract for voter registration management
Summary
The committee approved a joint resolution to continue using DFM Associates for voter-registration and election data management, with the Lake County Clerk describing the platform's role and security safeguards.
The Lake County Technology Committee on Oct. 31 authorized an agreement with DFM Associates, the county's vendor for voter registration and election management. Anthony Vega, Lake County Clerk, described DFM as the county's primary data-management platform for voter registration, candidate filings and ballot-template setup and said DFM has served the county since early 2003.
Vega said the platform is a central repository for election parameters and candidate information and that switching vendors would require a substantial data-conversion effort; options are limited because counties in Illinois consolidate election functions differently than in some other states. Committee members asked about cybersecurity and where the data are hosted; Vega said the system is hosted on a secure server and that the county's enterprise IT team (Chris Blanding's team) handles firewall and data-exchange arrangements.
The committee approved the joint resolution by voice vote. The annual amount cited during the discussion was stated as $191,868 in the transcript.
