County Purchasing New Ballot Sorting Equipment That Could Alleviate Processing 'Bottleneck'

[RandySF]

The Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a BlueCrest, Inc. ballot sorting machine for the Elections Office on Tuesday after a brief discussion on the decision not to use a competitive bid process.

The equipment will help handle the huge increase in vote-by-mail ballots the Elections Office processes, staff said.

Before the pandemic, vote-by-mail ballots ranged from 20-40% of ballots cast. Now, vote-by-mail ballots are sent to every registered voter, and that type of ballot accounts for more than 80% of ballots cast each election.

Santa Barbara County had processed more than 111,000 ballots as of Thursday, and about 92% of them were vote-by-mail ballots.



https://www.noozhawk.com/county-purchasing-new-ballot-sorting-equipment-that-could-alleviate-processing-bottleneck/

[Cheezoholic]

1. I wish this would take off nationwide. Mail in voting is one of if not the most secure ways to vote

And more importantly, and what makes repukes angry, it normally increases participation by pretty sizeable margins.

Thanx for all your hard work RandySF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!