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Dickinson County clerk presents plans to buy electronic poll pads and two DS200 tabulators
Summary
County Clerk Jennifer Gayson asked commissioners to add and consider purchase of electronic poll‑pads (estimated $50,539.80 over three years) and two DS200 tabulators ($12,950) to speed check‑ins, improve ballot accuracy and reduce manual counting; purchases had not yet been approved at the meeting.
County Clerk Jennifer Gayson asked the Dickinson County Commission to consider two election equipment purchases aimed at speeding voter check‑ins and reducing manual processing: electronic poll pads for voter check‑in and two DS200 optical tabulators for precinct tabulation.
Gayson told commissioners the county already uses DS200 equipment in three locations and proposes buying two additional DS200 units to serve Solon and Talmadge precincts, where she said the two polling locations account for 1,386 and 992 registered voters respectively. She said the DS200s “can speedily tabulate votes, eliminating manual counting…
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