imagecast precinct tabulator training manual

Wait to hear the 'Ding!' that tells you your ballot has been cast.Take your ballot to the ICE machines near the exit of your polling place and insert the marked ballot into the machine.Put your voted ballot inside of the provided Secrecy Sleeve, leaving an inch or two sticking out of the top.Mark your selections with the provided marking device privately simply filling in the oval next to the choice you want to make for each contest.Take the ballot provided to you when you check in at your polling place to one of our voting booths.

No voter has to comprise their privacy.Ĭasting your vote on the ICE tabulator is a simple and user friendly process. This means that all voters in Alachua County are able to vote using the same ballot, cast their vote on the same equipment, and store their selection as one set of results. The heart of the voting experience, the ImageCast Evolution (ICE) is an exciting Optical Scan system and the first voting system that combines the counting of ballots with the ballot marking functions of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant voting system. More about these products can be found on Dominion's official webpage. The system was first used in Alachua County for the High Springs Municipal Election in November of 2015, and was used countywide beginning with the Presidential Preference Primary in March of 2016. Along with a final vote count tape at the end of the night that is also posted at the precinct and then returned with the tabulator, ballots, and other election-related materials to our office by the Precinct Warden and a uniformed Haverhill Police Officer assigned to that precinct at the end of the day.Alachua County is proud to use Dominion Voting's Democracy Suite products to design and count the ballots for all of our elections. The machines generate a “zero tape” which is posted on the morning of the election, showing that each machine starts with no count prior to the beginning of the election. They are not connected to the internet, have no wired connections other than to a power outlet (with battery backup, also tested in advance, should power at the polling place fail). They are also secured throughout the process in the same way as the ballots. Our current voting machines were chosen via a competitive quote process, and are always tested in our office prior to an Election Day.

The voting machines we use are one of two possible models certified by the Secretary of State’s Election Division. The machines were purchased from and maintained by LHS Associates. The City of Haverhill uses ImageCast 2 Precinct Tabulators at all 28 precincts. As is with every election in Haverhill, all election workers are/were sworn in, Haverhill Police Offices are/were present with the ballots throughout the day, and the entire Recount process if necessary. The ballots themselves were secure from the morning of Election Day to the end of the Recount, as were the voting machines. In fact, voters of the 3 rd Congressional District (including Haverhill) saw first hand in 2018, when the top two candidates came within 0.2% of the vote of each other, and a Recount was requested, held, and affirmed the result. If any question arises about the results we report on election night (the so-called “preliminary results”), we can pull the ballots and count them by hand. There are no touch-screen terminals connected to the internet and every ballot provides every vote with a paper trail rendering your vote unable to be hacked or changed. Every community in this state, no matter its size, uses some form of paper ballot. Some basic facts all citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts should understand.

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Imagecast precinct tabulator training manual