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Committee forwards Secretary of State voting-system grant to full board; budget shortfall for universal mail ballots not yet funded
Summary
The committee voted 3–0 to allow the Department of Elections to accept up to $1.95 million in Secretary of State grant funds to reimburse voting-system replacement and management-system costs, while the department said universal mail-in balloting would require additional general-fund allocation in the next fiscal year.
The Budget and Finance Committee on May 13 forwarded a resolution that would retroactively authorize the Department of Elections to accept and expend up to about $1.95 million in funds allocated by the California Secretary of State for voting-system replacement and election-management system work.
John Arntz, director of the Department of Elections, told the committee the funds…
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