The White County Board of Commissioners voted to deny a request from Supervisor of Elections and Registration Jody Davis to purchase some additional voting machines for the county.
During the commission’s Monday night meeting, Davis advised commissioners the state requires the county to have one voting machine for every 250 voters in a precinct. The request was to use $36,188 in SPLOST funds to purchase additional equipment to meet the state requirement.
White County currently has 88 voting machines to serve the county’s 23,156 registered voters.
Davis, even though he made the request for more machines, told the commissioners, “We, in fact, do not necessarily have room to set up all the machines that the state law mandates.”
That didn’t sit well with the commissioners and prompted Chairman Travis Turner to comment, “Our elections department, you look at that total what we spent I think most of us would be willing to argue with anyone at the state we’ve put our best foot forward, there’s just a point we are not made of money we don’t have an unlimited amount of money to keep pouring into this because they can’t pass laws that make sense at the capital.”
The board, on a motion made by Commissioner Terry Goodger, voted unanimously to deny the purchase of the equipment at this time.
