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Hart voter assist terminals and tabulators
Hart Verity Touch Writer
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
Personal adaptives may be used to assist voters in making their selections.
Using the Hart voter assist terminal
Step 1
Begin the voting process.
Step 2
Select your choice for each race.
Step 3
Review your ballot.
Step 4
Choose to print the ballot.
Step 5
Printing the ballot.
Step 6
Confirmation the ballot printed.
Step 7
Printer producing the ballot.
Step 8
Retrieve ballot with secrecy sleeve.
Step 9
Proceed to the tabulator.
Hart Verity 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 matches the application to vote number. The precinct worker will tear off the ballot stub and instruct the voter to feed the ballot into the tabulator.
Using a Hart Verity tabulator
Step 1
Screen shows tabulator is ready.
Step 2
Insert ballot edge into slot.
Step 3
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:
Step 1
Auxiliary bin slot.
Step 2
Insert ballot into slot.