![]() ![]() If you see the blinking lights of an access point in your polling place, that’s what it’s for. Most commonly, this is done using Wi-Fi communication from the pollbook to an access point within the polling place and then cellular data communication from the access point to a county server. That too would scale up poorly without the use of electronic pollbooks.įor this reason, the Legislature expressly allowed electronic pollbooks to be networked beyond the polling place for purposes of updating absentee ballot records. Also, once polling-place voting is underway, no newly accepted absentee ballot can be opened until the pollbook is checked to see whether the voter voted in person. With paper pollbooks, if lots of absentee ballots arrive after the rosters are printed, marking them into the pollbooks manually is a huge job. All accepted absentee ballots need to be noted in the pollbook so that the voter doesn’t vote again at the polling place. One feature that became particularly important in 2020 is that they ease the coordination of polling-place and absentee voting. Įlectronic pollbooks can improve efficiency and reduce errors. Although Minnesota law provides each county the flexibility to select its own vendor, all the counties have made the same choice, KNOWiNK’s Poll Pad. Because all the most populous counties are in the electronic pollbook camp, most voters experience this technology. Two-thirds of Minnesota’s counties use electronic pollbooks, with the remainder using traditional paper pollbooks. ![]()
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