DEPARTMENT: Public Services and Revenue Administration
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Upgrade Electronic Pollbook Equipment And Amend Master Software License And Service Agreement With Know Ink, LLC And Authorization To Execute Cost-Sharing Agreements With Cities, Townships And School Districts
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize the Public Services and Revenue Division to purchase updated electronic pollbook equipment, amend the Master Software License and Services agreement with Know Ink, LLC and execute cost-sharing agreements with cities, townships and school districts.
SUMMARY
In 2018, the Elections Department, in cooperation with the County's 12 largest cities purchased and implemented electronic pollbooks in 119 of the 141 County precincts (Resolution No. 18-153, March 13, 2018). In 2020, a purchase was made to expand the use of pollpads to include all the small cities and township precincts in the County (Resolution No. 20-017, January 7, 2020). Finally, the use of the pollpad system was leveraged in the 2021 school district elections making the electronic pollbook system the standard used in Dakota County polling places.
An electronic pollbook is capable of checking in voters, facilitating election day registration, reporting voter statistics, and assisting election judges with some of their various procedures. Electronic pollbooks enhance election security with improved data integrity, automates posting of absentee voters to prevent duplicate voting in the poll, enforces voter registration procedures, and automates prevention of some voter errors. In addition, after an election, election day voter registrations and posting voter history is done automatically through pollbook technology.
These devices do contain private voter data. Protecting that data is of utmost importance. Replacing aging equipment with updated hardware before it reaches its end of life will ensure the County can continue to run the most up to date ...
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