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Daily Mountain Eagle - Ed Howell

Probate officials get training on new tabulation machines

Walker County Probate Judge A. Lee Tucker and his staff got training Thursday on the county's new leased vote tabulation machines, which will be used for the first time in the Nov. 3 General Election. Election Systems and Software representative Gregg Woodyard of Huntsville showed off the features of the updated DS200, including touch screen interaction with voters and officials. He showed how the top of the machine could be lifted off and pulled like airport luggage, and talked of how images of write-in votes will be captured and can be printed out. 

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