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Ballot marking devices are available to all voters with special accommodations for hearing, visual, physical and other disabilities. This provides voters the opportunity to independently vote a ballot in complete privacy. This terminal marks the voter's selections on paper that becomes their ballot. Voters can select their choices using a touch screen. Personal adaptives may also be used to assist voters in making their selections. The completed ballot is then fed into a tabulator, which scans and records the votes.
Personal adaptives may be used to assist voters in making their selections.
Receive your unique voter card at the precinct check in.
Insert the card in the terminal.
The screen will verify you are ready to begin the voting process.
Select your choice for each race.
If there is a write-in candidate, select the choice on the list.
Use keypad to type the name.
When done with each race, review your selections.
Choose to print the ballot.
Printer producing the ballot.
Retrieve ballot with secrecy sleeve.
Take voter card to return to precinct worker.
Proceed to the tabulator.
Once the voter has completed marking his ballot either with a pen from the voting booth or by a ballot marking device (voter assist terminal), the voter puts his ballot in a secrecy sleeve with the ballot stub exposed and proceeds to the precinct tabulator. The voter should hand the precinct worker the application to vote. The precinct worker will check that the number on the ballot stub and application to vote match. The precinct worker will tear off the ballot stub and instruct the voter to feed the ballot into the tabulator.
When you approach the tabulator, you will follow these steps:
Screen shows tabulator is ready.
Insert ballot edge into slot.
The screens show the ballot was successfully cast.
Sometimes it is necessary to collect ballots in the auxiliary bin before tabulating. If needed, the precinct worker will instruct you to follow these steps:
Auxiliary bin slot.
Insert ballot into slot.
