New Voter Terminals to Assist Various Persons

From the City Clerk:

Good morning.

As you know, every Madison Polling Place will have an AutoMark Voter Assist Terminal this fall. The AutoMarks do not record any votes; they literally mark the ballot you will put into the tabulator. These machines have a touch screen with large print and a Braille keypad with audio prompts through headphones. The AutoMarks will be programmed to translate instructions into Spanish and possibly Hmong. (For a more thorough description, see http://www.automarkts.com/)

If you would like to see the AutoMarks in use before the September Primary, there will be a public test of these machines when we are testing the tabulators:

August 28 – September 1

8 a.m. - Noon, and 2-4 p.m.

Room 104 of the City-County Building (formerly Family Court)

We will have an AutoMark set up for absentee voting in the City Clerk's Office as soon as the County Clerk programs and provides us with the memory cards that will allow the machines to read each ballot.

- Maribeth

Madison City Clerk's Office