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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope everyone is having a good summer, and I am looking forward to our picnic.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I attended the Howard County Fair yesterday. First, the desk I have been building is fimished and won a second place ribbon, so I had to see that. But more importantly, I came across the hoCo Board of Elections booth in the Exhibit Building and got to try out the new voting machine that we will get to use in the primaries next April. It is accessable and works in a similar fashion to the old ones except that it produces a paper ballot that you have to feed into another machine that counts everyone’s ballots. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyway, I had a lot of questions and they answered most of them. Then I asked if they could bring the machines to one of our meetings, and they said that they would love to. I have the contact info and will contact them to start the conversation. If there are any preferences as to when would be best, please let me know. Or, if anyone (Darlene or Sharon or someone else?) who wants to work this, let me know that, too. We can talk about this at the picnic or our next meeting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>