Your Secure Vote

The voting station you will use to cast your vote is an interactive touch screen system. Upon checking in at your precinct, a poll worker will present you with a voter access card. You will use the voter access card, which contains no personal information, to access and display your ballot at any available voting station. Once the card is properly inserted into the voting station, the ballot is displayed for your review. To make selections, simply touch the screen.

The touch-screen ballot station does not allow you to select more than the designated candidates or selections for a specific race, eliminating the opportunity to over-vote.

The touch-screen ballot station offers a summary page once you have moved through the entire ballot. Races that appear in red on the summary screen indicate that the race has been under-voted. A touch of the screen on the under-voted race will prompt the station to return you to the under-voted race within the ballot and allow you to complete the voting process. You can also step back and forth through the ballot, changing any selection until the ballot is cast. Please remember, once you have touched the "Cast Ballot" button at the end of the summary screen, your vote is final. 

The ease of use of the voting station enables virtually any person to vote without constraint. The user-friendly touch-screen promotes the use of a finger or virtually any object as the method used to make selections. Visually impaired voters can use the voting station with ease, as voice- guidance may be provided to step the voter through the entire ballot in privacy. Illiterate voters can also use this feature to simplify the voting process. The sensitive nature of the touch-screen and the ability to position the terminal screen at a right angle to the voting booth enables easy access for those individuals with unique accessibility requirements.

Your vote is stored in two separate locations within the voting unit. Ballot images are recorded to both locations simultaneously. In addition to these two internal sources, your vote is stored to a memory card that is locked into the voting system during the election. At the close of the election, the memory card is removed and used to tally the votes. The two internal sources and the memory card combine to create a three-prong audit process, ensuring that every vote is recorded and counted the way the voter intended.

A back-up power supply ensures that once the system has been activated for an election, the contents of the audit record will be preserved during any interruption of power to the system until processing and data reporting have been completed. If a power failure were to occur, your vote remains intact within the system.