Incurring Debix

By Kleinheider Posted on May 12, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Michael Cass has the final numbers on the registered voters who signed up for identity protection services after laptops containing voter identification information were stolen form the Davidson County Election Commission:

The final tally of Debix participants was 57,097, said Janel Lacy, Mayor Karl Dean’s press secretary. Two laptops containing about 337,000 voters’ Social Security numbers were stolen from the Davidson County Election Commission’s offices in the days before Christmas, prompting Dean to offer the identity-theft protection service on the city’s dime for one year. Police found the computers on Jan. 17.

Metro is paying a discounted rate of $9.75 for each of the first 20,000 voters to sign up and $9.25 for all others. At those rates, the city will pay $538,147.25 from a special insurance fund designed for an unforeseen event. Austin, Texas-based Debix usually charges its customers $99 a year.

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