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• POLL WORKERS: A complete precinct - totals .Poll workers must manually add- report - is automatically together the totals - from the generated by the single machines in their polling place OPTECH .III-Peat each poll . in addition to manually counting Only. Write-in ' s are manually the absent voter ballots . Write- tallied . in votes must also be counted . * .Voting booths may be stacked in a. manner which most cost effectively :utilizes vertical . space. One .booth requires only 3 .8 square feet of floor space. The security container of one OP-TECH III-P system will be designed to accommodate up to 4 ,000 voters depending upon the ballot size, and will replace the two or three mechanical voting machines on , which voters previously cast their ballots . It is recommended voting booths be placed in the precincts in a ratio. of one voting booth for every .10.0 to 150 voters . A typical polling place will have 6-10 voting booths . to conveni-ently accommodate the voters on election day. Poll workers will perform basically the same duties in the polling places as always with the exception that they will issue the voter a ballot and a marking pen . A demonstration on the correct method of properly marking the ballot will be continuously performed as ,the voters -enter the polling place r E Upon -.proper. qualification and required check-in procedures , a .voter would be issued a -ballot and mar.king. pen and directed to go to any of the available voting booths . When the voters have successfully completed marking their ballot they are instructed to place their ballot- in the secrecy sleeve provided and insert the ballot into the OPTECH III-P ballot tabulator . As the voter inserts the ballot from the .secrecy sleeve, it is scaned on both sides of- the ballot for .marked votes , count all valid .-votes , advance the public -counter and deposit the counted ballot in the appropriate compartment of . the ballot - box . There -will be an attendant. stationed at the OPTECH III-P ballot tabulator . -Detailed •pr:ocedure.s €or. :closing th e, polls ' and obtaining. the.,results . .will .be addressed . in .the training. program. It .is sufficient to say, that precinct r.esults-.wil:l .be obtained quickly and easily: from the- ORTE•CH' III=P .p.r. i•nt -out . :An added feature. of the::OPTECH : III-P system is-:that. .three. audit trails are ,available: ; one- is- the voted ballots; two -is -the:=:pr.intout and the 'third, is the memory pack.