Actually voting apps have been provided recently in the mobile phone market, But None apply it in the real election. The pilot program allows senior citizens and voters with disabilities to use the sleek Apple interface to access a touch-screen ballot, adjust text size and color if necessary, and select their candidate by typing or by filling in -the bubbles with a pen- said State Elections Director Steve Trout.
the program saves dollars because it is less expensive than the system the state was using: he said.
Tuesday’s vote was a special primary to replace former U.S. Rep. David Wu, who stepped down in August amid a sex scandal.
We thought it was a good, smaller-scale election to test something like this: Trout said.
Along with the iPad, a portable printer is used to turn the ballot into a hard copy that can be mailed,
- For our disabled voters that want to vote independently and have always wanted to do so, this is the outreach program to help them- said Pam Benham, elections supervisor for Columbia County, where the pilot program was in use.
At the beginning of the year, the state will hold a general election. - We plan to utilize some of what we learn and actually put it to use in then- Trout said.
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