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Southborough voters test electronic clickers; town technology committee fields questions about security and rollout
Summary
At the Town of Southborough annual town meeting the Municipal Technology Committee briefly presented its work and recruited volunteers; much of the meeting’s discussion focused on the new electronic voting clickers, with residents, moderators and committee members debating testing, security and whether to rely on the devices for close votes.
The Municipal Technology Committee presented a short report at the start of the Southborough annual town meeting and invited residents with technology and IT experience to volunteer with the panel.
The session quickly moved from the committee’s work to a detailed public discussion about the municipality’s new electronic voting clickers after the town clerk and moderator used the devices for trial votes and then in several live votes during the meeting.
Committee chair Matthew Propst, who introduced the municipal tech update, said the committee has been working with the town information-technology staff on “improving networking, hardware and software, and improving training support among the various different departments.” He also said the committee had reviewed the voting hardware and “we did indeed actually look at this. We actually … reviewed, read the manuals, looked into which…
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