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Registrars flag equipment, software and maintenance costs as early voting expands
Summary
The Registrars' office told the committee that transitions to new tabulators and a voter-registration system will raise maintenance and licensing costs; the office seeks cellular pole upgrades to avoid hotspots and expects increased early voting activity to affect operations and budgets.
Peter Gston, Republican registrar of voters speaking for the Registrars' Office, told the committee that the department faces equipment and maintenance pressures as early voting becomes more extensive.
Gston said the Registrars' Office has six employees and that collectively their operations requests were reduced by roughly $33,000 from what they requested. He warned that new…
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