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County board questions Hart invoice after conflicting statements about election machines
Summary
A disagreement over a county memo and a Hart clarification prompted several DuPage County Board members to press staff for details about an invoice and whether voting equipment was connected to telephone or remote services; county finance staff said they relayed a verbal conversation with a Hart executive and stood behind the memo.
DuPage County board members pressed county staff on April 28 after a finance memo described a conversation suggesting that Hart (the vendor supporting county election equipment) had indicated telephone service to certain equipment had been turned off. Member Jason Desart (recorded in the transcript as Member Desart) said the language in the memo led some in the public to conclude voting machines were vulnerable because of telephone connectivity concerns.
Desart summarized a published clarification attributed to Hart’s Stephen Sockwell that said, in his words, “Hart…
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