In 2021, Texas lawmakers passed a sweeping and controversial new election law. Experts say a provision in the law mandates the purchase of voting technology that doesn’t currently exist — and is on the verge of costing over $100 million. w/ VotebeatUS:
“We’d have to provide extensive training, but ultimately [counties] would have to handle the logistics,” Taylor said. Election officials who violate a provision of the state Election Code, such as by using equipment that isn’t certified by the state, could face civil penalties or legal challenges or could lose their jobs.
Ballot scanning devices — which scan information in voted paper ballots and convert it into electronic data — cost anywhere from $5,000 to $100,000, election officials told Votebeat. Counties, depending on their size and the number of precincts and voting centers they operate, will purchase a dozen or hundreds of those. The USB drives — which come with permissions that allow them to be opened only on specific hardware, a security measure — cost between $50 and $70 each.
Chambers County, southeast of Houston, has 35,000 registered voters and uses Hart InterCivic voting equipment. Hawthorne said the county uses 20 ballot scanners at polling locations and two tabulation scanners at the central counting station. Given the law’s language, the county will be prohibited from using all that technology, along with 100 USB drives used to gather voters’ cast ballots and election results.
Additionally, both voting machine vendors have to pass strict security checks and testing to obtain federal and state certification.
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