Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Randall County approves software to redact ballots and speed public-records requests
Summary
Randall County approved purchasing a ballot redactor ($13,000) and a ballot verifier ($2,000) to automatically redact personally identifiable information from scanned ballots and provide secure electronic access to cast-vote records; the measure passed unanimously.
Randall County commissioners on the March agenda approved buying software to redact personally identifiable information from scanned ballots and to provide an electronic viewer for cast-vote records, saying the tools will speed public-records requests while protecting voter secrecy.
Elections staff told the court the county currently redacts records by hand and that the workload is increasing after recent transparency laws; they described a sample workload of about 27,000 ballots from the last election. "Currently, we are using an Adobe program to do the redact," said the county elections official (Speaker 11). Staff said the proposed system would perform…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
