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6`ba ...1. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
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Post Office Box 220
44,-.6 c.00-4 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278
Jim White.Chairman
Kathy Knight.Secretary
Jamie Cox, Member
Tracy Reams,Director
To: Orange County Board of County Commissioners
From:Tracy Reams,Director of Elections �9> '
Date: June 19,2012
Re: May 8,2012 Primary Election Report
Following is a report of various activities and statistical information relating to the May
8`h,2012 Primary Elections held in Orange County for your review.
• Pre-Election—
The staff completed all pre-election tasks in a timely manner. This included,but not
limited to accepting candidate filings,data entry of candidates and contest to ensure
accurate ballot layouts,generating Election Day poll books,coordinated voting
machine/equipment delivery and pickup,recruiting and training One-Stop staff and
Election Day precinct officials,ordering and receipt of ballots, and preparing precinct
supplies. We visited every precinct to ensure phones lines were working properly to
transmit Election Night results in a timely manner. Thorough logic and accuracy testing
was completed on every voting machine to ensure votes were recorded properly. Laptops
were loaded with one-stop voting software and setup at the one-stop sites. Processing the
3,501 registrations received prior to the April 13th registration deadline was a challenge,
but my staff worked together efficiently and accomplished our goal to have all
registration entered prior to the beginning of One-Stop voting.
• Absentee Voting—
As directed by the Elections Board, we established five One-Stop Early voting sites
noting the number of votes cast at each site as follows: (total 16,579)
3,539-Hillsborough BOE
4,759-Carrboro Town Hall
294-Mt.Zion Church
3,998 -Rams Head
3,989-Seymour Senior Center
A total of 633 Absentee By-Mail ballots were counted resulting in a total of 17,212
ballots cast prior to Election Day. 0.16%of the 105,111 registered voters or 0.37%of the
total ballots cast(46,079) were cast prior to Election Day. We processed 1,540 new voter
registrations that registered and voted during the one-stop voting period and 1,190 change
of addresses. We trained and staffed a total of 37 people to work the five voting sites.
• Election Day—
Election Day voting was steady at all precincts with 28,728 ballots cast. All precincts
were open at 6:30 a.m. as required. We had a total of 200 precinct officials working in
44 precincts. We had four precincts that had problems with their M100 voting tabulator
at some point during the day. The precinct officials were instructed to open the
"Emergency Bin"for voters to deposit their ballot in so that voting was not interrupted.
Backup M100 tabulators were immediately sent to these precincts to replace the ones that
were having issues. The issues we were seeing were that the M100 was not excepting
ballots in all orientations as programmed. It would read the ballot face up but would not
read the ballot face down or vice versa.
Precinct officials reported few voter problems. A total of 288 Provisional Ballots were
cast by voters who we could find no registration for and/or voters voting out of their
precinct. Precinct officials reported that few voters questioned the new districts that they
were in. We had at each precinct new district maps to provide to the voters. Most
questioned the number of ballots each precinct had and the scanning device used to scan
the barcode on the ballot and the barcode on the voter's"authorization to vote"form to
ensure the correct assigned ballot was given to the voter. We had a total of 24 ballot
styles due to the Congressional, House, School Board Districts and the "17 year old
ballots"for the party primaries. All precincts had a total of 7 ballots styles except for
Patterson Precinct which had a total of 13 ballot styles. We did receive a great deal of
calls of which a majority was from voters asking where their polling place was.
Election Night results were electronically transmitted successfully. We were proud to
report 100%of our precinct results by 8:15 p.m. Staff remained at office until 10:30
p.m. to unload and audit precinct supplies as they were brought in.
• Post-Election—
Staff researched a total of 288 Provisional ballots cast recommending that 149 be rejected
due to no record of registration and/or out of county registration, 19 be partially counted
due to voting outside of their assigned districts and 120 be fully counted.
Staff completed scanning"authorization to vote"forms so that voter history data was
available within 10 business days.
Board and director conducted the sample audit count for two precincts as directed by the
State Board of Elections to ensure machine accuracy. The ending hand-eye counts were
the same as the Election Day machine count. The Board certified the official results on
May 15, 2012.
Below is statistical information that may be of interest.
One-Stop statistics for other counties. Statewide voter turnout was 34.66%
County #Reg. Voters #One-Stop Sites #Ballots Cast at Total Voter Turnout
One-Stop Site
Alamance 91,204 2 6,828 32.85%
Chatham 44,266 3 7,102 47.23%
Davidson 102,235 2 6,125 33.29%
Durham 192,270 6 27,362 39.69%
Guilford 337,841 11 23,372 35.10%
Iredell 105,936 2 7,393 32.58%
Johnston 102,221 3 6,024 35.69%
Orange 105,111 5 16,579 43.84%
Person 25,163 2 3,304 37.49%
Pitt 106,894 5 8,137 29.73%
Wake 612,919 9 39,404 40.57%
Voter turnout statistics for previous elections held in Orange County.
Election Registered Voters Total Voter Turnout
2012 May Primary 105,111 43.84%
2010 November General 102,462 45.02%
2010 May Primary 100,189 15.0%
2008 November General 105,540 71.25%
2008 May Primary 96,606 48.26%
2006 November General 91,140 38.86%
2006 May Primary 88,944 13.23%
2004 November General 95,570 68.15%
2004 July Primary 83,782 21.95%
2002 General Election 93,352 37.39%
2002 September Primary 91,425 19.40%
Key 2012 May Primary Election costs.
Advertisements $ 1,508.91
Ballots $40,146.94
Machine Delivery and Pickup $ 2,075.13
Poll Books $ 5,346.79
Programming $ 6,446.82
Rent for Polling Places $ 2,035.00
Election Day Staff—(200) $32,868.66
One-Stop Staff—(37) $40,845.69
Telephone: (919)245-2350 Fax:(919)644-3318