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Name :   Hugh Gallagher
Organization :   Election System & Management Services
Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Section :  6.7
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Comment :  I have been involved with localities where elected officials, in their zeal
to cut budgets, have insisted that cheaper ballot printing costs be
obtained. I have heard, first hand, “do we really need all those ballots?”
So if convenience actually means ease of which a process is
accomplished, resulting in a savings, then yes, wireless voting can be
considered a “convenience.” If a locality has 1,000, 2000, or more
voting machines, then the ability to expeditiously and correctly prepare
voting machines for an election using wireless, can in fact result in a
long-term savings. If it means that when polls close, results are more
quickly aggregated and reported, it does in fact result in a convenience.

[Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, July 28, 2005, Pasadena]