The county's negotiating to buy the two-story structure for a fire-sale price of $54,000, but some lawmakers objected to spending $300,000 on a building they don't own yet.Īfter heated debate and a round of finger-pointing, the funding request passed. On Thursday, an Orange County Legislature committee learned it might cost $300,000 to renovate a state-owned building on the Middletown Psychiatric Center campus where the county plans to keep its machines - and eventually locate the Board of Elections offices. One incidental cost for Orange and other counties is creating a climate-controlled storage area for the sensitive electronic devices.
Orange County taxpayers kicked in just over $91,000, Green said. The cost so far for his county's machines is $1.8 million, most of which is covered by federal funds.
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Orange County has ordered 155 machines for this year - one for each polling station - and might need as many as 200 altogether to serve the full voting population next year, Elections Commissioner David Green said yesterday. Then they feed their ballots into the ImageCast optical scanner, which reads their votes and drops the ballots into a secure metal container. Instead, they'll check off names on a paper ballot, in true low-tech fashion. No longer will they swing a handle sideways to register their votes and jerk open the curtain with a satisfying clang. Previously, Bill was an Assistaint Manager at Pure Hockey and also held positions at Auto Truck Group. Bill Benedict is a Manager, Production at Imagecast Marketing based in Geneva, Illinois.
No longer will voters enter a 1960s-era metal booth to flick levers for the candidates of their choice. Manager, Production at Imagecast Marketing. Prepare for a new polling-station experience when that day comes. The general population won't confront the ImageCast until the following September - when the lever machines disappear for good. Within weeks, election offices in Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and most other New York counties will get their first shipments of the optical-scan voting machines that will replace the lever-operated devices the state has used for decades.Įvery polling station must have one in place for the September primaries, but only for handicapped voters to use. Voters are able to review, verify and correct their selections prior to casting their ballot by audio and/or visual means.Behold the future of voting in New York: the Sequoia ImageCast. Following the audio voting process using the ATI controller, the integrated inkjet printer produces a marked paper ballot which serves as the official ballot record. A set of headphones connects directly to the ATI controller. The accessible voting session uses a hand-held controller called an ATI (Audio Tactile Interface) that connects to the ImageCast Evolution. Assertive input devices for accessible ballot navigation and voting, including an ATI (Audio-Tactile Interface), sip & puff, and paddles.Accessible ballot marking interface (both audio and visual).19” full-color LCD screen for visual ballot review and ballot casting.The ImageCast Evolution offers the following user interfaces: The ImageCast Evolution features several accessible voting interfaces that allow voters with various disabilities to effectively vote, review and cast a paper ballot in a private and independent manner. California Counties that use Dominion:Īlameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Marin, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, and Yuba. It is the only voting machine that allows all voters – regardless of their ability – to use the same paper ballot on the same machine to cast their vote. In addition to scanning and tabulating marked paper ballots, the ImageCast Evolution is also a ballot-marking device for voters with disabilities. The ImageCast Evolution is a precinct-based optical scan tabulator. Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Evolution The ICX requires the voter to insert an activation card which is generated by a poll worker. Department of Justice (English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Hindi, and Khmer). The ICX has the audio capability to handle any of the ten languages required by the U.S. The ballot marking capabilities allow a voter to vote using the accessible tactile interface (ATI), sip-n-puff, or paddle switches. ICX is an accessible ballot marking device.
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