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April 13 19187 <br />� <br />TO Mi is City Manager <br />FROM -0, Steve Nort,7wi. <br />Sieve,rial years ago., punch card voting was explored by the City'. <br />p <br />and it was determinielid, not to purchase that type of system. <br />Because of the age of our existing equipment and the availability <br />41 41 <br />of new technology, It is appropriate to look at changing systems. <br />The voters use a papier ballot and mark their choices, The ballot <br />,is set into, the opt-Ica! scan machilnie where the information is <br />read and, the votes recorded., The machine keeps a running tally <br />of the viotes 'n an inte,rnal memory system that is removable like <br />a casisette.i This un,i is, used, for, final vote tallying and reports. <br />One of the im,pio,rta,nt features of' the machine is that it woll <br />0 1 <br />immediately rel"eict bialloits with, mistakes. A printout from the <br />i3 <br />top of the machine ex,pilains how thie ballot was 'incorrectly recorded, <br />The voter may obtain a new ballot to mark, virtually eliminatincr <br />the re3ecteid ballots caused by votier errorA, <br />The Ramsey County Voting Equipment Task Force recently had a <br />demonstration of the Optech III. The demonstration and explana- <br />tioln revealed a system which would be a tremendous asset to the <br />voting priocess in Roseville. Some of the advantages of the <br />optical scan over the lever machines are as follows* <br />0 <br />