Carbon County is beginning to roll out its new voting machines and wants the public to educate themselves before the upcoming November election.

Lisa Dart, elections director, released a video demonstrating how the new voting process will be come November. The video can be found at www.carboncounty.com or on the Times News website at https://bit.ly/2kJ2WWm.

Dart said that the county is planning to implement the new equipment the week of Oct. 7 and is currently in the process of scheduling training classes for all of the poll workers.

Once training is complete, Dart wants to get a machine set up in her office so that anyone who would like to practice can come in and see how the new voting process will be. In the meantime, she urges voters to watch the demonstration video to familiarize themselves.

Earlier this month, the county commissioners accepted the quote for the purchase of the 55 new voting machines from Dominion Voting Systems Inc. of Denver at a cost of $421,753.31 plus shipping costs and other associated services. This price included a $212,000 discount.

Carbon County’s election board, in June, decided on the new machines, which include one precinct scanner and one ADA accessible ballot marking device for each precinct.

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The new voting process will include paper ballots to meet the state requirement of having a paper trail during the election.

Each voter will enter their polling place, sign the voter book and receive a writing utensil and folder containing the ballot. Privacy booths will be placed throughout the voting area for voting.

Once the ballot is completed, the voter will take it to the scanner and scan it. The ballot will automatically be dropped in a bin attached to the scanner after it is scanned.

An additional photo will be taken of each completed ballot. Poll workers will not scan the ballots; it must be completed by the voter.

A tablet will be used for an ADA-accessible marking device, with voting completed on a touch screen. When the ballot is finished, a copy of the completed ballot will be printed.

The data from the ballots will be stored on a USB card inside the scanner. When the polls close, the USB card will be removed and returned.