Reply #9: FL: Commissioners Sign Four-Year, $1.5 Mil Lease For Ballot Printers [View All]

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Commissioners sign four-year, $1.5 mil lease for ballot printers
Published May 25th, 2008
By Dale M. King
CITY EDITOR

Palm Beach County, which just spent $5.5 million to purchase optical scan voting machines, has paid out another $1.5 million for a contract to lease the equipment needed to print absentee and early voting ballots.

County Commissioners Tuesday approved a four-year contract with Runbeck Election Services, at a cost of $1,460,000.

The state, which gave the county about $4.4 million for the optical scan apparatus, will also put just under $500,000 into county coffers to cover the cost of the so-called “ballot-on-demand” equipment.

“This equipment will be used for early voting and for absentee voting,” Robert Weiner, administrative aide to Supervisor of Elections Arthur Anderson, told the Boca Raton News.

“These are things that are mandated by the state,” said Weiner. “We have no choice.”

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