The Mojave County Office of Elections is in need of replacement voting machine parts, and they just hit the market. But the county needs to act quickly. Federal funding to pay for these parts is due to expire next week.
The Help America Vote Act not only provides federal funds to pay for updated and upgraded voting equipment, but also provides states with provisional voting capabilities, resident voting information, and voter identification procedures. However, the statutory funding is scheduled to expire on March 22nd.
Replacement parts for the Mojave County voting machines were highly sought after, but until recently they were in short supply. Now, Elections Administrator Allen Tempert has turned his budget from the Help America Voting Act 2018 Election Security Grant to his department’s budget adjustment to secure these parts to be used in repairing electronic ballots. We have asked the county to approve $5,039. The funds will also allow spare parts to be sent to polling places on Election Day if needed.
Approximately $115,000 of Help America Vote Act funds will be used to purchase electronic ballot books for county elections in 2021, and an additional $56,000 in grants will be used to purchase accessible voting equipment for counties. I was.
The Mojave County Board of Supervisors will announce on Monday (two days before the elections office deadline) at its next board meeting in Kingman whether to approve the use of the grant to purchase new electronic ballot parts. will vote for.
