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Precincts aim to accelerate voting with express polling
Process cuts down amount of tables voters have to go to

BY ALAN RIQUELMY
Staff Writer

Pulling levers and marking paper ballots have long been replaced by electronic voting.

Now it's time for the latest change at the voting booth: Express polling.

"This process is going to be very different for the voter when they go into the precinct," said Nancy Boren, executive director of the Muscogee County Office of Elections and Registrations.

The difference is in the number of tables a voter must visit before getting a plastic voting card. In the past there were four. For Tuesday's primary, there will be two -- a number Boren believes will streamline the voting process and speed things up.

"We envision it working more like a bank," she said.

Previously, voters would step up to a poll's first station -- the voter certificate table -- where they would verify a pre-printed form with their personal information. Next would be the elector's list table. A poll worker would locate the voter's name in a large black book and mark it showing the person had voted, Boren said.

The third step -- the numbered list of voters table. There, a poll worker would write down the voter's name on the appropriate list divided by political party.


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