The Plan for Aging Voting Equipment Task Force kicked into gear in Park County, with a public brainstorming session Feb. 20 at the Cody Library on ways of lowering election costs in order to cover what’s expected to be an $8-10 million bill for new voting machines in the state. … As the state struggles to find funding for future elections, it is exploring ways to lower costs by asking voters how they would feel about the consolidation of polling places, casting ballots in county vote centers or switching to a vote-by-mail system.
The results will be tabulated and used by the statewide PAVE Task Force as the group tries to determine how to finance and structure Wyoming elections as a generation of voting machines ages out and it becomes harder and harder to staff the electoral process in rural areas.
Presenting on the issue were Park County clerk Colleen Renner, deputy clerk Hans Odde and Park County Commissioner Jake Fulkerson, who serves on PAVE as a representative of county commissioners statewide.
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