Reply #14: April 10, 2003 - Yellow Springs Ohio [View All]

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Push buttons vie for punch-card vote

When Yellow Springs voters go to the polls on May 6 for a special election on natural gas aggregation, they will see something new: an electronic voting machine, which the Greene County Board of Elections will be testing.

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Dwayne A. Rapp, vice president of TRIAD Governmental Systems Inc., the Xenia business that oversees Greene County’s voter registration and tabulating systems, said that the push-button system does not represent “a flamboyant change” in the way people vote. Voting “should be as simple as it was” in previous elections, he said.

TRIAD personnel and Board of Elections officials will be in Yellow Springs on Election Day to monitor how the voting system works. Poll managers and poll workers will receive training before the election, Garman said.

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Beverly Hogue, a Board of Elections official who supervises absentee voting, said last week that three people, including herself, have voted on the machines, as absentee voters. The other two voters thought the system was easy to manage, Hogue said.

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http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2003/april/041003_voting.html