Elections Taylor County’s Voting System
The Image Cast Evolution Tabulator
Taylor County Board of County Commissioners purchased our voting and tabulation system in 2017 . This tabulator unit is an integrated accessible voting solution. This accessible option protects the privacy, anonymity, and dignity of the voter while allowing audio ballot capability and enabling voters of varying abilities to navigate, complete, and cast a paper ballot that is indistinguishable from one that’s conventionally marked by hand.
How It Works
The Image Cast Evolution is an optical scan tabulating device that reads paper ballots. In Taylor County, the paper ballots are designed with ovals to the left of each candidate or issue that the voter must completely fill in, indicating their choice. The Image Cast Evolution tabulator is designed to be used by every voter, including those voters who might need assistance to vote.
Voting with the Image Cast Evolution Tabulator
- The voter is issued a paper ballot. Using the pen provided, the voter records their vote by completely filling in the oval next to the candidate or issue of their choice.
- After marking the ballot, the voter takes their ballot, in the secrecy folder, to the Image Cast Evolution tabulator and inserts it into a slot on top of the machine.
- The Image Cast Evolution tabulator will then read the votes cast and deposit the voted ballot into a locked and sealed ballot box.
With the Image Cast Evolution tabulator, if you overvote a race (voting for more candidates or issues than allowed in a race) or if you leave your ballot completely blank, it will be returned to you when you insert the ballot into the Image Cast Evolution tabulator. This gives the voter the opportunity to correct their ballot so that the voter can be sure that every vote counts.
If the voter makes a mistake on his ballot, they may return that ballot to be spoiled and receive another one. (F.S. 101.5608 (b) states that in no case shall a voter be furnished more than three ballots.)
