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006 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No.Fx <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: APRIL 19, 1988 <br /> SUBJECT: BOARD OF ELECTIONS TABULATORS <br /> DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S <br /> OFFICE,X501 <br /> (NONE) TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve the purchase of twenty-five (25) reconditioned <br /> MR200 ballot tabulators effective July 1st. <br /> BACKGROUND: On Monday, March 14, 1988 preliminary agreement was reached <br /> with the Board of Elections to purchase twenty-five (25) <br /> reconditioned MR200 ballot tabulators. With this purchase, <br /> all county precincts will be equipped with tabulators, thus <br /> eliminating the necessity for hand-counting votes and improve <br /> accuracy in recording votes. <br /> Per request of the Board of Elections the Manager will request <br /> that these tabulators be the ones formerly used by the <br /> Brunswick County Board of Elections. Funding for these <br /> tabulators is established as follows: <br /> A) 32,500 previously appropriated for this purpose. <br /> B) 19,500 to be appropriated effective July 1, FY 88-89. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S) : <br /> Manager recommends approval of tabulator purchase as outlined <br /> above. <br />