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City clerk: returning to paper rosters 'not something we would want to consider'
Summary
A city clerk described the heavy labor of paper rosters, including a Saturday session to mark rosters and 750 Monday check-ins during a presidential election, and said poll pads speed check-in, protect privacy and are preferred over paper.
A city clerk summarized local experience with paper rosters and the advantages of poll pads, saying the old process was labor-intensive and error-prone. The clerk described a pre-election session where "we had 6 folks in a conference room on the Saturday before, for 6 hours marking A B on all the roster," and said staff were repeatedly pulled from other duties to stamp rosters at multiple locations.
Citing a high-volume example, the clerk said, "During the last presidential, we voted 750 people on Monday alone," and argued that the county's poll-pad workflow — which propagates absentee status to the tablet immediately — speeds check-in to under 30 seconds, improves privacy by showing only the single voter's record, and makes reverting to paper impractical. "For us, going back to paper really is not something we would want to consider," the clerk said.
