In December, the Board of Elections announced it had selected Dominion to provide its new voting equipment. ![]() "There's a lot more work to do," Secrest said. 17, when absentee ballots go out to Ohio voters in the military or those abroad. Testing and staff training must be completed by Sept. And check that the machines are running the most recent version of software. Confirm the features to serve people with disabilities are working. Check that voters can't vote for more candidates than permitted in a particular contest. Within three days after each batch of new machines arrive at the board, staff cast test votes and check the totals. And that the entire system is secure," Secrest said. That the ballots are being tabulated correctly. to make sure that the machines are functioning correctly. "So there's a series of tests that take place. Secrest said each machine counts how many ballots were cast on the machine and that total can be checked against the number of paper receipts and a count of how many voters checked in at a polling location to vote. They can be opened only by a Republican and Democratic poll worker. Secrest said voting machines are not connected to any sort of network. With the larger screen, "it's easier to view. The functionality from the voter's experience is going to be very much the same." ![]() And then your ballot is printed in the printer. You touch the screen as you normally would. "The functionality is very much the same," Secrest said. The main differences between the old TSX machines and the new ones are a larger touchscreen voters insert the validation card at the bottom instead at the top of the machine and the printer is much quieter and is supposedly less prone to paper jams. The Board of Elections is still using about 30 TSX machines for the special Aug. Meanwhile, about 1,400 Premier Election Systems Accuvote TSX machines that have been used in Stark County elections since 2013 now sit in an offsite storage facility, said Secrest. The rest of the cost covers smartcards, battery chargers, USB drives, a workstation for the Board of Elections to examine paper ballots, backup batteries, training, on-site technical support, seals for the machines, installation, and assistance in state-required logistics and accuracy testing.
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