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2 <br /> ©`age . X04 h ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS <br /> Ri <br /> P Z 208 S. Cameron Street <br /> 17 e Post Office Box 220 <br /> Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br /> „lo Telephone: (919)245-2350 Fax:(919)644-3318 <br /> Kathy Knight, Chair <br /> Bob Randall,Secretary <br /> Jamie Cox, Member <br /> Tracy Reams, Director <br /> To: Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br /> From: Tracy Reams, Director of Elections <br /> Date: April 13, 2016 <br /> Re: March 15, 2016 Primary Election Report <br /> Following is a report of various activities and statistical information relating to the March 15, <br /> 2016 Elections held in Orange County for your review. <br /> • Pre-Election — <br /> The staff completed all pre-election tasks in a timely manner. This included, but not limited to <br /> filing candidates, receiving and auditing campaign finance reports, coordinating voting <br /> machine/equipment delivery and pickup, recruiting and training One-Stop staff and Election Day <br /> precinct officials, ordering and receipt of ballots,preparing precinct supplies,processing voter <br /> registration forms and absentee ballot requests. <br /> Thorough logic and accuracy testing was completed on every voting machine to ensure votes <br /> were recorded properly. We held several staff training sessions to ensure all were well trained <br /> with using the new voting equipment. <br /> Laptops were loaded with one-stop voting software and setup at the one-stop sites in addition to <br /> loading software on 132 Election Day laptops. <br /> The staff trained and certified"Multi-Partisan Assistance Teams" (MAT) to assist with <br /> requesting and casting absentee ballots for voters in assisted living homes. The MAT team was <br /> deployed to various sites in the county as requested. <br /> From January 1, 2016 thru March 15, 2016 the staff processed 4,822 new registrations, 2,126 <br /> duplicate registrations, 3,065 changes of information and removed 2,199 registrations from the <br /> voter rolls. A total of 10,812 voter cards were generated and mailed during this time. My staff <br /> worked together efficiently and accomplished our goal to have all registrations entered prior to <br /> the beginning of One-Stop voting. <br />