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Public commenter urges Henrico supervisors to reject $600,000 registrar request and consider hand-count alternative
Summary
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Clark urged the board to reject the registrar’s $600,000 equipment request for FY2027 and proposed hand-counting paper ballots with video documentation as a lower-cost alternative; the board did not respond on record.
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Clark told the Henrico County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 24 that the county should not approve a $600,000 request from the registrar’s office for new electronic voting equipment and supporting contracts for FY2027.
Clark, who identified himself as a resident and veteran, said the county previously spent $1.1 million on the same systems in 2025 and proposed an alternative he said would…
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