Los Angeles County supervisors will consider an agenda item Tuesday that could retroactively approve the continued use of its Voter Information Management System licensing and support agreement with ESSVR.
The item would approve the agreement from May 10, 2018, to June 30, 2019, and could continue through Dec. 30, 2020. The entire agreement will cost just under $1.3 million, including extensions.
This agreement would support the current election system through the 2020 cycle. However, Los Angeles County has been working to build out its Voting Solutions for All People (VSAP) initiative. That initiative would include electronic, real-time poll books and accessible voting features.
"We will be using electronic rosters to check in voters and to maintain, on a near real-time basis, who's voting at what location," Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/Clerk Dean Logan told Techwire in an interview. "The whole premise behind the vote centers is that anybody can go to any location over the course of an 11-day time period."
The entire VSAP initiative will cost about $290 million from state, federal and county funds, according to Mike Sanchez, spokesman for LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
The county is working with several vendors for each component of the VSAP system.
