Travis Secrest, an administrative assistant for the Board of Elections, said the equipment so far has passed all of the tests. Workers have been opening the boxes, inspecting the machines for damage and testing them. The past couple of weeks, warehouse managers have been accepting shipments of the Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X machines – which have been a point of controversy in the county. No separate scanner is used in this configuration, because ImageCast X records voter choices directly into the voting system’s memory.CANTON – Stark County's new touchscreen voting machines are rolling into the Board of Elections. ImageCast X Direct Recording Electronic Voting MachineĮlection jurisdictions can elect to use ImageCast X as a DRE voting machine, with or without an optional voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT). As of 2023, Dominion tabulators count votes by reading the computerized QR code, not the human-readable text that the voter sees, although the company is developing scanners that read human-readable voter marks. The scanner most commonly used with ImageCast X is the ImageCast Precinct hand-fed scanner.
To cast their vote, a voter must insert the printed paper ballot into a separate tabulator. As of 2023, Dominion is nearing production of BMDs that print voter selections in only human-readable form (and, relatedly, scanners that read human-readable voter marks), without selections being encoded in QR codes-this has been under development since 2019, when Colorado decided to prohibit the use of QR codes on ballots. Currently, the ImageCast X BMD on the market encodes the voter choices in a non-human readable QR code. Unless configured as a full-face ballot, the paper record lists only the voters’ choice(s) in each contest. Accordingly, after reviewing choices on the summary page, the voter selects when to print a paper record of their choices. When configured exclusively as a ballot marking device (which is how most jurisdictions deploy it), ImageCast X does not have scanning or tabulating capabilities. The ATI can also support headphones for voters who are visually impaired, or paddles or sip-and-puff devices for voters with dexterity impairments.ĭepending on how jurisdictions choose to configure the ImageCast X, after voters have had the opportunity to review all choices on the summary page, the method of casting the ballot differs. ImageCast X supports accessible voting through an optional tethered Audio-Tactile Interface (ATI), which is a “game controller” style console that includes tactile navigation buttons. In all versions of ImageCast X, the device can be configured with additional accessible features for voters with disabilities. (And if voters skip any contests, the screen indicates “ Under_vote.”) After voters are finished marking all their preferred choices, the device presents a “review page” that allows voters to double-check their choices on their ballot. The ImageCast X device allows voters to mark choices on the touchscreen display. In BMD and DRE configurations, to begin the voting process, voters insert a “voter activation card,” which is configured with a voter’s ballot style during the voter check-in process after the activation card is inserted, the ImageCast X automatically displays the proper version of an electronic ballot. Whether ImageCast X is deployed as a marking device only, or as a DRE, these configurations are not interchangeable. It is often used as an assistive device, but is also deployed in some jurisdictions for use by all in-person voters. It is used in some other jurisdictions, with several municipalities in Wisconsin adding the ImageCast X DRE in 2022. Most Nevada counties have used ImageCast X DREs since 2018 and all of Louisiana uses the ImageCast X DRE for early voting. The ImageCast X is most commonly deployed as a BMD, with an attached commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) laser printer. It can be deployed as either a ballot marking device (BMD) without tabulation capabilities, or as a Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine. Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X is a touchscreen voting machine.
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