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be provided directly by County staff or by outside vendors, as determined by the County. 2. The System will have the following functionalities: • The ability for the County to create ballot styles for each precinct based on the appropriate contests and candidates and to generate ballots by either creating a print file that may be sent to a vendor or by printing ballots on demand in the County offices; • The ability for the County to program memory cards for each precinct for an election that will, when inserted into an ACCUVOTE optical scan vote tabulator, properly record the votes on ballots cast in that precinct, will reject ballots that are not from that precinct or which do not have the proper validation marks, and return to the voter ballots which contain an overvote or a crossover vote; • The ability to count absentee ballots at a central location in the County or at each precinct and to generate reports noting the number of absentee ballots counted at each precinct; • The ability to accumulate votes on an ACCUVO 1 k, optical scan vote tabulator located in each precinct, to protect voted ballots in a sealed ballot box which automatically separates write -in ballots from non - write-in ballots for further review by election judges, to generate paper tapes of election results for review and certification by election judges, and to transmit election results by modem line to the County; and, • The ability to accumulate election results from electronically transmitted files from each precinct, through use of the memory card which recorded votes at the precinct and/or from the election results tape, to create an election results database that may be used for displaying results on an Internet website, and to generate needed reports for certification of election results. 3. System Implementation will take place in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. 4. The County will provide implementation project management services through a Project Manager. Joe Mansky, or his designee, shall serve as Project Manager for the County. B. Timeline By August 31, 2001, the System will be implemented and ready for use by the County and the following Municipalities: Maplewood, New Brighton, Roseville, and White Bear Lake; and by August 31, 2002, for the County and all of the Municipalities. C. System Equipment The County will purchase System hardware and software (collectively refereed to as the "System Equipment ") as needed for use of the System by the County and the Municipalities. The System Equipment to be purchased by the County for implementation of the System under the terms of this Agreement is listed in the System Equipment List, attached hereto and made a part of this Agreement as Appendix A. Elections JPA Page 30 2 of 25