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Hart voter assist terminals and tabulators

Hart voter assist terminals and tabulators

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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.

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Personal adaptives

Personal adaptives may be used to assist voters in making their selections.

Using the Hart voter assist terminal

Video walkthrough

 

When using the voter assist terminal, you will follow nine steps:

Step 1 of the voting process

Step 1

Begin the voting process.

Step 2 of the voting process of Hart VAT 4

Step 2

Select your choice for each race.

Step 3 of the voting process of Hart VAT Reviewing ballot

Step 3

Review your ballot.

Step 4 of the voting process, choose print the ballot

Step 4

Choose to print the ballot.

Step 5 of the voting process printing the ballot

Step 5

Printing the ballot.

Step 6 of the voting process, Confirmation of printed ballot

Step 6

Confirmation the ballot printed.

Step 7 of the voting process, printer producing the ballot

Step 7

Printer producing the ballot.

Step 8 of the voting process, ballot in sleeve

Step 8

Retrieve ballot with secrecy sleeve.

Step 9 of the voting process, proceed to tabulator

Step 9

Proceed to the tabulator.

Hart 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

Hart Tabulator screen

Step 1

Screen shows tabulator is ready.

Hart Tabulator Insert ballot

Step 2

Insert ballot edge into slot.

Hart Tabulator screens final

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:

Hart Tabulator Auxiliary bin new

Step 1

Auxiliary bin slot.

Hart Tabulator aux Insert ballot

Step 2

Insert ballot into slot.