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Elections Department recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign Agreement for Services 3389 with Democracy Live, Inc., for the provision of ADA-compliant Remote Accessible Vote By Mail Solutions and Uniform Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) and Military Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act solutions to voters, for an amount not to exceed $198,000, effective upon execution for a term of 24 months; and
2) Approve and authorize the Registrar of Voters to sign the attached Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) document related to this grant when received from participating counties, for the purchase of ADA-complaint software solutions; and
3) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer to increase revenue and appropriations for the Elections Department by $99,000, in order to receive the first half of the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Agreement funding.
FUNDING: 100% funded by the Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Settlement Fund
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On October 30, 2018, the Board authorized the Registrar of Voters to accept and execute the DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) Settlement Fund grant agreement in the amount of $198,000, for the purchase of ADA-compliant online balloting portals from LiveBallot, for a consortium of five (5) participating counties, include El Dorado County (Legistar 18-1598). The other four (4) participating counties are Placer, Inyo, Marin and Fresno.
Democracy Live was named in the grant application as sole vendor for acquisition and implementation of the ADA web-based accessible voting solutions through the LiveBallot application.
The DRAM Settlement Fund was created as a result of antitrust litigation involving DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and is to be used for projects with a purpose “to encourage use of innovative technology to benefit California consumers.”
The purpose of the UOCAVA and MOVE act is to help military serving...
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