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2 <br /> 1 Re: November 8, 2016 General Election Report <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Following is a report of various activities and statistical information relating to the November 8, <br /> 4 2016 Elections held in Orange County for your review. <br /> 5 <br /> 6 • Pre-Election — <br /> 7 The staff completed all pre-election tasks in a timely manner. This included, but not limited to <br /> 8 receiving and auditing campaign finance reports, coordinating voting machine/equipment <br /> 9 delivery and pickup, recruiting and training One-Stop staff and Election Day precinct officials, <br /> 10 ordering and receipt of ballots, preparing precinct supplies, processing voter registration forms <br /> 11 and absentee ballot requests. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Thorough logic and accuracy testing was completed on every voting machine to ensure votes <br /> 14 were recorded properly. Laptops were loaded with one-stop voting software and setup at the <br /> 15 one-stop sites in addition to loading software on 132 plus Election Day laptops. <br /> 16 <br /> 17 The staff trained and certified "Multi-Partisan Assistance Teams" (MAT) to assist with <br /> 18 requesting and casting absentee ballots for voters in assisted living homes. The MAT team was <br /> 19 deployed to various sites in the county as requested. <br /> 20 <br /> 21 From July 1, 2016 thru November 8, 2016 the staff processed 14,894 new registrations, 8,592 <br /> 22 duplicate registrations, 10,080 changes of information and removed 7,414 registrations from the <br /> 23 voter rolls. A total of 26,366 voter cards were generated and mailed during this time. My staff <br /> 24 worked together efficiently and accomplished our goal to have all registrations entered prior to <br /> 25 the beginning of One-Stop voting. <br /> 26 <br /> 27 • Absentee Voting — <br /> 28 As directed by the Elections Board, we established 5 one-stop early voting sites with a total of <br /> 29 568.5 cumulative hours. The votes cast at each site are as follows: (total 59,766) <br /> 30 <br /> 31 13,484 - Hillsborough BOE 4,527 - Efland Ruritan Bldg. <br /> 32 15,326 - Carrboro Town Hall 13,348 - Seymour Senior Center <br /> 33 13,081 - Chapel of the Cross <br /> 34 <br /> 35 We processed a total of 1,879 same-day registrations during early voting. <br /> 36 To date 3,132 Absentee By-Mail ballots have been approved and counted by the Board. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 • Election Day— <br /> 39 Election Day voting was steady at all precincts with 18,831 ballots cast. All precincts were open <br /> 40 at 6:30 a.m. as required. We had a total of 326 precinct officials working in 44 precincts. <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Although we thought we had thoroughly setup and tested the electronic poll books for every <br /> 43 possible scenario, we found that several precincts had issues printing on Election Day. IT staff <br /> 44 recommended that we "image" the laptops to eliminate several steps in the data loading <br /> 45 process in addition to the countless updates to be processed which is very time consuming. In <br /> 46 past elections we had to "marry" each laptop to a printer. With the image process, we were told <br /> 47 this was not necessary. We found that it was necessary to "marry" the laptops and printers <br /> 48 once they were setup and tested prior to Election Day. This did cause confusion with our <br /> 49 precinct officials and voters at start-up. Once we discovered the issue, my staff and I were able <br /> 50 to walk the precinct officials through over the phone on how to fix the issue. We have been in <br />