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BCA discusses assisted-voting device and offering registration forms at informational meeting
Summary
Members discussed an assisted-voting device that is costly to program and whether voter-registration forms could be available at the informational meeting; the Clerk said forms can be provided but filling them out does not immediately register a person in the system.
A Committee member asked whether the assisted-voting device used for voters with vision challenges could be made available; the Clerk said the device "hasn't been used for a while" and programming it for a local election costs thousands of dollars, so it is typically used only for state and federal elections unless a regular user requires it.
The Committee member also asked whether voter-registration forms could be available at the informational meeting to help residents register. The Clerk said she could have the paperwork on hand for people to fill out, but cautioned that paperwork alone does not put someone into the registration system automatically and that she could not both take minutes and register voters at the same time. Members suggested having another person available to collect the completed forms.
