County officials discuss adding voting machines and annual licensing costs

Nov 13, 2025

Elections staff said the county uses re-deployed machines across early voting and election day but may need more capacity for future elections; rough per-machine purchase-plus-license estimates were discussed at about $5,000 each.

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Cricket described machine availability and reuse: early‑voting equipment is reused on election day, and the county typically equips each site with three machines but had 12 set up at the main office during this election. She said the main office could be reconfigured to hold about 30 machines to handle demand.

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