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Rankin County narrows voting-equipment debate, moves to secure vendor ahead of March primary
Summary
After a months-long RFP review, supervisors discussed security, certification and unit counts for two vendors and voted to select Park (Park Intercivic) to expedite pricing and delivery; staff emphasized the need for equipment on site by year-end to allow training for a March federal primary.
Rankin County supervisors spent a lengthy portion of their Nov. 14 meeting reviewing two responses to a request for proposals for new voting equipment and instructed county staff to move forward with a chosen vendor to meet an urgent timeline for a March federal primary.
County staff told the board that responses came from Hart (the incumbent) and ES&S, and that election commissioners had evaluated both. The countys RFP asked for a paper-ballot, single-source system with a vendor based in the United States and a system certified to current federal voluntary…
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