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A total of 633 Absentee By-Mail ballots were counted resulting in a total of 17,212 ballots cast prior to Election Day. 0.16%of the 105,111 registered voters or 0.37%of the total ballots cast(46,079) were cast prior to Election Day. We processed 1,540 new voter registrations that registered and voted during the one-stop voting period and 1,190 change of addresses. We trained and staffed a total of 37 people to work the five voting sites. • Election Day— Election Day voting was steady at all precincts with 28,728 ballots cast. All precincts were open at 6:30 a.m. as required. We had a total of 200 precinct officials working in 44 precincts. We had four precincts that had problems with their M100 voting tabulator at some point during the day. The precinct officials were instructed to open the "Emergency Bin"for voters to deposit their ballot in so that voting was not interrupted. Backup M100 tabulators were immediately sent to these precincts to replace the ones that were having issues. The issues we were seeing were that the M100 was not excepting ballots in all orientations as programmed. It would read the ballot face up but would not read the ballot face down or vice versa. Precinct officials reported few voter problems. A total of 288 Provisional Ballots were cast by voters who we could find no registration for and/or voters voting out of their precinct. Precinct officials reported that few voters questioned the new districts that they were in. We had at each precinct new district maps to provide to the voters. Most questioned the number of ballots each precinct had and the scanning device used to scan the barcode on the ballot and the barcode on the voter's"authorization to vote"form to ensure the correct assigned ballot was given to the voter. We had a total of 24 ballot styles due to the Congressional, House, School Board Districts and the "17 year old ballots"for the party primaries. All precincts had a total of 7 ballots styles except for Patterson Precinct which had a total of 13 ballot styles. We did receive a great deal of calls of which a majority was from voters asking where their polling place was. Election Night results were electronically transmitted successfully. We were proud to report 100%of our precinct results by 8:15 p.m. Staff remained at office until 10:30 p.m. to unload and audit precinct supplies as they were brought in. • Post-Election— Staff researched a total of 288 Provisional ballots cast recommending that 149 be rejected due to no record of registration and/or out of county registration, 19 be partially counted due to voting outside of their assigned districts and 120 be fully counted. Staff completed scanning"authorization to vote"forms so that voter history data was available within 10 business days. Board and director conducted the sample audit count for two precincts as directed by the State Board of Elections to ensure machine accuracy. The ending hand-eye counts were the same as the Election Day machine count. The Board certified the official results on May 15, 2012. Below is statistical information that may be of interest.