Tarrant County Elections Adopts Civera Ballot Verifier

Tarrant County elections administrator Clint Ludwig on Friday, Aug. 9, planned to demonstrate the Civera Ballot Verifier, recently adopted to enable publishing ballot images alongside cast vote records for public viewing.

Commissioners in January made a Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations adjustment of $49,750 for the software, and the county’s IT Steering Committee reported the project complete on July 31.

Getting Ballot Verifier ready for expansion requires adapting it to voting machines, such as the Hart InterCivic machines used in Tarrant County.

The county believes it’s the second in the U.S. to adopt the tool after Ada County, Idaho, according to an emailed press release. Ada County used it during its May primary elections, as reported in Government Technology.*

The software’s capabilities include:

• Free public access
• Search and download records
• Infographics

Election staff in Ada County needed to first extract ballot information, check its accuracy and compile it before sending it to Civera. It can handle more than 1 million ballots and potentially reduce public information requests.

*Government Technology is a sister publication to Industry Insider — Texas.