Government Services Committee Reports

• The State of California and the federal government are to reim- burse the county for the purchase of the voting machines. This has not occurred to date. • The electronic voting machines purchased by the Registrar of Voters meets all ADA accessibility standards and were an excep- tional decision in saving the county money, otherwise two ma- chines per polling place would have been required. • The Registrar of Voters shares office space in the Lakeport court- house with the Auditor-Controller. The office space is grossly in- adequate for the daily staff and storage, and has no room for ex- pansion during elections. • Absentee ballots are counted at the time they are received and are reported in the initial election returns.