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Elections office reports readiness for February special primary but flags 600‑DPI ballot‑image mandate as major operational cost
Summary
Director Fall reported logic-and-accuracy testing complete, absentee ballots to begin mailing Jan. 21, poll-worker hiring progress and voter-registration keying; staff warned a new 600‑DPI ballot‑image requirement will be time‑consuming and costly to implement for legacy ballots.
Director Fall gave the board a multi-part operational update ahead of the Feb. 11 special primary and underscored a significant implementation challenge posed by a new requirement that post‑2025 records requests may demand ballot images at 600 dots per inch (DPI).
Office readiness and near-term calendar: Fall said logic-and-accuracy testing for voting equipment concluded the morning of the meeting and that ballots for the upcoming special election "will begin going out on the 21st in accordance with OCGA 21 238042 for special elections." Absentee-by-mail applications were low at the time of reporting (12 regular ABM and 1 UOCAVA application), and the office planned training for advanced in-person (AIP) and election staff in the coming weeks. Poll-worker hiring stood at…
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