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9487.2 <br />TO: Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator <br />FROM: Dorothy Iiallin, City Clerk <br />DATE: September 4, 1987 <br />SUBJECT: Voting Equipment <br />Attachments: A. Voting Equipment Task Force Report <br />B. Chapter 222 - Pa=ty Preference <br />C. Questionaire from League of Minensota Cities - <br />Issues to be Considered in 1988 <br />T). Optech III-P Brochure <br />The Legislature passed a law in 1987 mandating that a party <br />preference indicator be on each ballot for the next election. <br />Our current system would have to be retro fitted to Pccomplish <br />this. At this point it is not clear that this can be <br />accomplished. Ed Lellback of El Marketing, who sold us our <br />cu..rent puck card system in 1984, told Spring Iark who has the <br />same system it would cost approximately $3;000 if it was possible <br />to find a company that was able to make the change and it would <br />then have to be re -certified by the Secretary of State. <br />Government BuSiness Systems which prepares all election supplies <br />for Hennepin County told me it is not possible to retro fit the <br />vote counter. <br />As of January 1987 in Hennepin Ccunty 29 municipalities involving <br />a total of 414 precincts out of 451 precincts have opted to <br />purchase the Optech III-P system. Mound, which was the back-up <br />city for our system has selected the Optech III-P system. <br />Although our present system was purchased in 1984 at a cost of <br />$9,075.00 it is currently almost a "white elephant" as the <br />company is no longer in existance, which makes repair and access <br />_o parts difficult. <br />I would recommend the City purchase *,tech III-P voting <br />system. The cost for such a system wou_- <br />Optech III-P $ 4,950.00 <br />(a) Data Back-up Cartridge 225.00 <br />Carrying Case 50.00 <br />(b) Precincts <br />Total <br />G 5,225.00 <br />X 4 <br />$20,900.00 <br />(c) Voting booths are an additional $170.00 each X 24 = $4,080.00 <br />0 <br />