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County delays Clear Ballot software addendum decision amid legal and signatory questions
Summary
Commissioners declined to finalize a Clear Ballot software addendum after legal staff said the addendum had not completed legal routing and confusion remained over which signatory had accepted the supplementary terms; the board asked staff to add a discussion item to next week's agenda for a comparative review of voting system terms.
County staff and commissioners debated the routing and legal review of a software addendum to the Clear Ballot contract and whether the county had effectively chosen a replacement voting system without a full discussion. The clerk/recorder reported an email indicating Clear Ballot’s representative had agreed to the addendum but the legal office said it had not yet seen approval and requested that the software addendum be routed through the standard legal review process before the county executed the contract.
Commissioners noted they had previously received presentations from both Clear Ballot and Liberty (formerly Dominion) voting systems but said they had not made a final selection. One commissioner called the timing “premature” given unanswered questions about who signed and whether legal had approved the addendum; commissioners asked management staff to add a full contract comparison/discussion to next week’s agenda so the board could deliberate before approving any contract execution outside of a meeting.
No vote to sign was taken; the board directed staff to coordinate with legal and place the item on the next agenda for formal consideration.
