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City clerk pitches centralized counting of absentee ballots to ease poll-day congestion
Summary
City Clerk Gina described a plan to centralize absentee ballot tabulation — a 'central count' — to reduce congestion at polling sites and improve training and reconciliation, but aldermen raised security and transparency concerns and asked for more data before deciding.
City Clerk Gina outlined a proposal to centralize processing and tabulation of absentee ballots, telling the Oconomowoc Common Council that the city handled 8,216 ballots in the November election and that roughly 63% of voters used absentee options.
"Badger Books ... is basically a PDF of a poll book that's downloaded at the poll location," Gina said, explaining digital poll-book technology she is considering alongside central count procedures to speed processing.
Gina said the central-count approach — allowed under state statute and requiring the city's procedures to be submitted to the state election commission and creation of a board of absentee canvassers —…
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