Show Davis Ponders Modern Means For Voting By LE ANN BLODGETT is the computer age and Davis County election system might as well join the says Commission Chairman Stanley Voting day has become long and strenuous for those involved in vote THE COMMISSION has been considering some ideas that would modernize voting in Davis Ray Briscoe and Bruce Mayfield from Wasatch Opinion Research told the Commission that they would like to job of setting up new voting districts for the has become a real challenge to get people to let you use their home for voting says Commissioner HE POINTED out the inconvenience of having people going through your especially if the weather is A home is not a good place to You have to provide for voting booths and a separate room for counters that will be Parking is also a The Commission is considering a change in voting districts which would locate elections in rather than Most people seem to prefer schools rather than homes for Briscoe gave them a quote of to revamp voting districts in the The Research Corporation would divide the county up in sections or of to eligible voters THE STATE law provides that a voting district should not exceed The districts would be set up with an educated guess anticipating sporadic population decrease or so they would remain as stable as Briscoe said it would take approximately 60 days to complete the first with the possibility of several reruns with the human viewpoint being amalgamated with the SEVERAL voting systems are also being considered by the The hand-method of vote counting is time consuming and the counters become sometimes being confined to vote counting until the following Commissioner Smoot says they are interested in a punch card system that has been widely accepted throughout the It is economical and One of the bids that is being studied for this system would provide a full system for the county for This bid was submitted by Computer Election Service of Los Angeles and is effective until THE BID was submitted last year and present prices are much It would cost approximately more after Machines with special lights to illuminate ballots for the voters would cost The purchase could be extended over a period of The expense of hiring election personnel could be At the present time they hire approximately people at per IS said Commissioner Glen the high schools could borrow the card punch system and hold elections with voting issues such as the girls wear levis or This would provide them a chance to do various surveys of They could let the county use the school on election night free of charge in Commissioner Flint says he saw the California They have a multi-million dollar setup at their On election night the surrounding streets are blocked off and the voting judges drive through the basement of the building and deliver the boxes at a special begins at and by they are says Commissioner DAVIS presently has 97 voting The use of schools would eliminate the need for some of Counties in Idaho and Arizona have the computer voting As yet no Utah counties have adopted THE Commission ii taking further time to consider all aspects and possibilities in modernizing the voting There is no hurry as the next major election will not be until |