VOTES CAN BE CAST TODAY AND ON FRIDAY.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- Citizens can vote early for the Nov. 7 election by casting ballots today and Friday at a Lancaster fire station. Electronic voting Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means of casting a vote and electronic means of counting votes. devices will let voters cast ballots from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. today and Friday at the North County Fire Training Center, located at 42110 6th St. W. This is the sixth year in which Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County citizens have been able to vote in advance of Election Day on electronic touch-screen voting equipment. Besides the Lancaster fire station, the early voting Early voting, is the process which voters can cast their vote on a single or series of days prior to an election. Early voting can take place remotely, such as by mail, or in person, usually in designated early voting polling stations. places are at 16 other locations around Los Angeles County. Voters from anywhere in the county can vote at any of the early voting location. The touch-screen ballot contains the same contests and measures as the ballots at polling places on Election Day. Vote totals from each machine will be brought to the central tally location for inclusion Nov.7 with election results from polling places and absentee One who has left, either temporarily or permanently, his or her domicile or usual place of residence or business. A person beyond the geographical borders of a state who has not authorized an agent to represent him or her in legal proceedings that may be commenced against him or her ballots. All touch-screen units are equipped to allow voters who are visually impaired or blind to vote independently by the use of audio headsets or large-size text. Touch-screen voting is also a popular option for multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. voters who can view the ballot in their choice of Chinese (Mandarin Mandarin (măn`dərĭn) [Port. mandar=to govern, or from Malay mantri=counselor of state], a high official of imperial China. For each of the nine grades there was a different colored button worn on the dress cap. or Cantonese), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino and Vietnamese in addition to English. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Cortez Bundley of Lancaster takes advantage of early voting at the North County Fire Training Center in Lancaster. The voting will be open today and Friday. (2) Nancy Lohnes of Quartz Hill, left, and Linda Nadle of Palmdale vote early at the North County Fire Training center in Lancaster. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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