MILTON, Ga. — The public had a chance to see how Milton’s municipal election would run Oct. 12 as a cast of 25 city staff members marked pretend ballots at City Hall.
Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis explained each move made over the course of the demonstration, which ran about two hours. The session included intermittent Q&A sessions with about 10 people interested in the process.
Inglis shares the roles of deputy election superintendent and deputy ballot clerk with City Clerk Tammy Lowit. Inglis will also serve as the chief manager of tabulation, the process of counting all the ballots — including those cast during the advanced voting period — at the end of Election Day.
In about 15 minutes, Inglis successfully performed logic and accuracy testing of a poll pad after she took a staged oath, a promise that must also be made by each poll worker. Milton resident Judy Burds, who will serve as a poll manager, said the process takes days under Fulton County.
Testing technology
The city borrowed 14 poll pads, used for voter check-in during advanced voting and on Election Day, from the county at no charge. They will be divided among the three Election Day polling locations: City Hall, the Community Center at Milton Park and Preserve and the Public Safety Complex on Ga. 9.
Roswell resident Michael Gordon fired several questions about how the poll pad data consisting of Milton voter information, verified during the logic and accuracy test, is retrieved and stored. Gordon said he attended the mock election with a curiosity and hope that other cities, including his own, do what Milton is doing because of his distrust in Fulton County.
Inglis explained the voter data is first downloaded to ePulse, an election management software, which is then uploaded to the poll pads — produced by KNOWiNK through collaboration with the Secretary of…
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