KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County Commissioners will be asked tonight to pursue state and federal funding to replace all the voting equipment the County uses to hold elections.
The Elections Director for the Secretary of State’s office, Fred Woodhams says there have been significant upgrades since the last time the state purchased tabulators and the computer programs that run with them.
He says they aren’t taking the leap that some states have taken into paperless electronic voting.
They are the simple, fill in the dot, hack-proof system they use now.
The new tabulators can automatically record a copy of the ballot, something the old ones could not do.
State and Federal funding will be picking up most of the cost of the new systems for local jurisdictions.
