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b. Repairs: make basic repairs to ballot counters and ballot marking devices <br />as needed; the County will maintain or obtain spare parts for this <br />purpose. <br />C. Equipment Replacement: replace ballot counters, ballot marking devices <br />and related hardware and components on an as needed basis in the case <br />of complete or un-repairable equipment failure. <br />E. Ongoing Services <br />The County will provide the Municipalities with a set of test ballots (also known <br />as the test deck) and pre -audited test results for each precinct in every election. <br />The County will provide ballot layout, printing and memory device programming <br />as follows: <br />a. Ballot layout — no cost to Municipalities for all elections <br />Ballot printing <br />1) State and county elections — no cost to Municipalities <br />2) Other elections — printing cost attributable to Municipal and/or <br />School District offices and questions paid by Municipalities <br />and/or School Districts using cost formula provided by the <br />Secretary of State <br />C. Memory device programming — no cost to Municipalities for all elections <br />3. The County will provide each Municipality with the hardware and software <br />necessary to administer absentee voting for all elections. Each Municipality will <br />have the choice of one of the following options: <br />a. make arrangements for the County to accept/reject, process and count all <br />the absentee ballots for the Municipality; <br />b. accept/reject its own absentee ballots and make arrangements for the <br />County to process and count the absentee ballots for the Municipality; <br />C. accept/reject, process and count its own absentee ballots. <br />4. The County will provide the Municipalities with the County's costs for options 3. <br />a. and b. (above) no later than 24 weeks before the first election for which the <br />System will be used and no later than 16 weeks before the date established in <br />state law to begin absentee voting in subsequent years. Each Municipality shall <br />inform the County in writing of its initial choice no later than 20 weeks before <br />the first election for which the System will be used. Each Municipality shall <br />notify the County in writing of any changes desired for its choice in subsequent <br />years no later than 12 weeks before the date established in state law to begin <br />absentee voting for a primary in a given year. The County will allocate the costs <br />Joint Powers Agreement for New Voting System — 2013 Page 5 of 19 <br />