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7 c. March 15, 2016 Primary Election Report The Board received a presentation with updates on items of interest from the March 15, 2016 Election. Tracy Reams, Board of Elections (BOE) Director, reviewed her report: • Pre-Election — The staff completed all pre-election tasks in a timely manner. This included, but not limited to filing candidates, receiving and auditing campaign finance reports, coordinating voting machine/equipment delivery and pickup, recruiting and training One-Stop staff and Election Day precinct officials, ordering and receipt of ballots, preparing precinct supplies, processing voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests. Thorough logic and accuracy testing was completed on every voting machine to ensure votes were recorded properly. We held several staff training sessions to ensure all were well trained with using the new voting equipment. Laptops were loaded with one-stop voting software and setup at the one-stop sites in addition to loading software on 132 Election Day laptops. The staff trained and certified "Multi-Partisan Assistance Teams" (MAT) to assist with requesting and casting absentee ballots for voters in assisted living homes. The MAT team was deployed to various sites in the county as requested. From January 1, 2016 thru March 15, 2016 the staff processed 4,822 new registrations, 2,126 duplicate registrations, 3,065 changes of information and removed 2,199 registrations from the voter rolls. A total of 10,812 voter cards were generated and mailed during this time. My staff worked together efficiently and accomplished our goal to have all registrations entered prior to the beginning of One-Stop voting. • Absentee Voting — As directed by the Elections Board, we established 6 one-stop early voting sites with a total of 426 cumulative hours. The votes cast at each site are as follows: (total 19,989) 3,866 - Hillsborough BOE 816 - Efland Ruritan Bldg. 5,055 - Carrboro Town Hall 913 - New Hope Community Center 5,477 - Chapel of the Cross 3,862 - Seymour Senior Center There were 930 Absentee By-Mail ballots counted for a total of 20,919 ballots cast prior to Election Day. We processed 1,309 new voter registrations that registered and voted during the one-stop voting period and 1,232 changes of addresses. We trained and staffed a total of 45 people to work the six voting sites. • Election Day— Election Day voting was steady at all precincts with 26,551 ballots cast. All precincts were open at 6:30 a.m. as required. We had a total of 273 precinct officials working in 44 precincts. We did experience substantial lines at a couple of our polling places starting around 7:00 pm until the polls closed. All voters in line at 7:30 pm were able to cast a ballot. My reports indicate the longest line at 7:30 pm was at the Cheeks Precinct, Gravely Middle School, Efland with approximately 175 people who voted after 7:30 pm. Voting continued at this site for approximately an hour after closing to process voters in line at 7:30 pm.