The Optical Scan Poll Count Tabulating System scans your ballot and tallies your vote, providing you with these benefits:

• quick and accurate results
• secrecy and integrity of the voting process
• opportunity to correct your ballot

How easy is it to vote using optical scan?

• Get your paper ballot contained in a secrecy folder
• Proceed to a voting booth
• Mark your ballot by connecting the head and tail of the arrow next to the candidate of your choice

• Place your marked ballot in your secrecy folder
• Exit the voting booth and visit an operator at an optical scan unit
• Your ballot is inserted into the optical scan unit
• Your vote is then recorded and tallied
• All numbers are stored until the polls close

PLEASE NOTE: That identification will be required at the polls. Identification must prove not only the identity of the elector but also their qualifying address.