Brazos County commissioners buy software to remove information from 100,000 pages of records from the November 2024 election

This podcast contains comments from the March 4, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.Brazos County residents who have requested copies of 100,000 pages of records from the November 2024 election will not have to spend as much money to get that information.That’s because county commissioners agree to buy software to remove names of 92,000 voters.Commissioners were told the price for the public to get that information using the software will be around $40 dollars. If elections office workers had to manually remove the names, several citizens requesting that information were looking at a “very conservative” cost of $750 dollars.The commission’s general counsel, Bruce Erratt, says the removal of the names and other information is required by the attorney general’s and the secretary of state’s offices.Elections administrator Trudy Hancock said citizens requested cast vote records, or CVR’s, which reflect the selections a voter made on their ballot.The software purchase, costing $12,875 dollars, will allow the public to have access to CVR’s and ballots within 60 days.Click HERE to read and download the Brazos County document justifying the purchase of the software.Click HERE to read and download the document received by Brazos County from the company selling the software.Click HERE to read and download the amended contract for Brazos County to purchase the additional software.