To: Martin L. Cousineau, Finance Committee Chairperson
From: Domonique Clemons, Genesee County Clerk & Register of Deeds
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RE: Election Equipment Purchase
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BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval of a resolution to purchase additional election equipment to implement additional Security standards and result transmission.
BACKGROUND:
As the State of Michigan and Genesee County continue to innovate and move toward new systems to promote safe and secure elections. There is periodically a need to order new election equipment. This is further demonstrated this year, especially with the implementation of Proposal 2 that allows for 9 days of early voting. Genesee County has contracted with HART Intercivic as our Vendor for election equipment and are in the middle of a 10-year contract. The office of the Clerk/Register is requesting funds to purchase the new HART Transmit system for election processing. This is a purchase under our current contract with HART which is attached.
DISCUSSION:
This resolution would include the purchase of 28 (twenty-eight) Secure transmission devices for Verity Relay. These units will be deployed to each municipality to be used to more securely transmit election data and election night results for reporting by the county. The one-time purchase of these devices ensures that election results are accurately reported and securely transmitted. This system also creates redundancy in our election system as a 3rd data point to cross check election results and ensure all processes are handled appropriately with no tampering. This proposal also includes 28 V Drives - The data memory card that is used in all HART election equipment, and 1 new County Workstation, as well as professional set up and support. Finally, to support this purchase and ensure the highest level of cyber security this resolution includes additional Hardware, training and support for out IT division. IT is requesting the purchase of Palo Alto Devices to support ...
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