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inspector can offer the voter the
option to revote after completing
a spoiled ballot affidavit.
“This optical scanning system
Vo-Tech Week
Mayor T. L. Gramling, center, proclaimed this week as National Vo-Tech Week at South-
west Technology Center this morning. At the proclamation signing were, front, from left:
Dr. Terry Mosley, Assistant Superintendent; Dr. John Martin, Superintendent; Gramling,
Dr. June Knight, Superintendent Designate and B.F. Rowland, Jr., campus director, along
with several members of the student body. The Vo-Tech will be hosting a hot dog lunch
from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Wednesday and an automotive contest beginning at 8 a.m. on
Thursday. * .
Happy birthday wish-
es to LALO LINARES
she said.
“We test (the scanners) before
every election to make sure they
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This automobile, driven by Amy Gibson, was in-
volved in an accident with an Altus Police car Sat-
urday at the intersection of Main and Broadway.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
A bill approved by a Senate
committee Monday would
give Oklahoma voters the
chance to decide whether
the state should forbid la-
bor contracts that require
all employees to pay union
dues.
A resolution calling for a
statewide vote on right to
work on May 22 sailed to
approval in a Senate com-
mittee on Monday.
The Senate General Gov-
ernment Committee voted
13-1 for Senate Joint Reso-
lution No. 1, by Sen. Dave
Herbert, D-Midwest City.
There was no debate.
During a committee re-
cess, hundreds of union
members, who sat silently
during the vote, chanted
"right to work's a ripoff" as
they left the Senate cham-
ber.
The plan was expected to
be considered by the Sen-
ate later in the week. If it
passes, it would go to the
House.
A battle over right to
work led to a political
showdown last year in the
Senate.
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SOCIETY HISTORICAL
OKLAHOMA CITY
CITY OK 73105
The polling places for
the election will be:
Precinct 1, Altus Best
Western, 2804 N. Main.
Precinct 3, Em
manuel Baptist Church,
800 N. Forrest.
Precinct 4, First
Christian Church, 1300
N. Hudson.
Precinct 6. Altus Ma-
sonic Lodge, 1120 N.
Hudson.
Precinct 7. Southside
Baptist Church, 1100
Asa Lee.
Precinc t 9. Altus High
School Library. 421 N
Hudson.
Precinct 10. St.
John's Baptist Church.
620 W. Martin Luther
King.
Precinct 13, Altus
Public Library, 421 N.
Hudson.
Precinct 14, Prince of
Peace Catholic Church,
1500 Falcon Road.
Precinct 16. Blair
Community Building,
West Main in Blair.
Precinct 17, Duke
Town Hall in Duke.
Precinct 18, Eldorado
Community Building,
515 W. Main, Eldorado.
Precinct 19, Elmer
Methodist Church, in
Elmer.
Precinct 20. Friend-
ship Baptist Church, in
Friendship.
Precinct 21. (new lo
cation) Headlock Com
munitv Center, in Head
rick.
Precinct 23. Martha
Town Hall, Martha.
Precinct 24. Olustee
Community Building, in
Olustee.
including children and officer
By MARK GLENN ______________car driven by their 27-year-old moth-
ALTUS TIMES er Amy Gibson. That vehicle was
Five people were injured including eastbound on Broadway and the po-
four children and an Altus police offi- lice car driven by Mills was north-
cer in a two car accident Saturday at bound on Main Street at the time of
the intersection of Main and Broad- the accident. The two vehicles collid-
way ed and the Gibson auto came to
Officer Dewayne Mills was taken to rest near the First National Bank
Jackson County Memorial Hospital building.
where he was treated for bruises and Police say Mills was responding to
released. Tammy Gibson, 10, Curtis a call of an injury accident at A and
Gibson II, 7. Sarah Gibson, 9, and Main streets at the time of his acci-
Kenneth Gibson, 1, were also taken dent. The siren on the police car was
to JCMH. The four children were not activated.
injured seriously according Altus Po- Police interviewed three witnesses,
lice Chief Mike Patterson. They are asking that anybody else
The children were passengers in a who saw the accident to give them a
P 6 call.
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there is an election challenge, it til a unified and automated sys- The machines will only accept
is resolved the same way tern could be integrated valid ballots. A homemade ballot
STILLWATER - With Florida statewide, statewide. or even an absentee ballot will
investigating its election process According to Lance Ward, The OEMS was a three-phase be rejected by the scanner,
and Congress considering na- state Election Board secretary, $20 million project completed in “An absentee ballot has a dif-
tionwide reform Oklahoma is Oklahoma was the first to have 1992. Phase 1 involved the cre- ferent security code," Craig said,
being recognized as a model for one vote counting system ation of a statewide database of “and can only be read by the
election conduct in a Nov 24 statewide and still is the only all registered voters; phase II scanner at the election board."
article USA Today praised the state to have standardized voter computerized election adminis- The machines also deal with
Oklahoma election management registration, office administra- tration functions; and the final undervoting and overvoting con-
system that has been in place tion and voting. But it wasn't al- phase placed the same optical cerns at the time the voter in-
since 1992 ways that way. scan voting devices in each serts the ballot into the scanner.
“Oklahoma had almost full re- In 1985, only three counties precinct statewide. According to Craig, a com-
sult s by midnight " the article were using computers to register Glenna Craig, Payne County pletely blank ballot will slide
said. "The results were trans- voters. Only four counties had Election Board secretary, re- back out toward the voter. If a
ferred from the scanners to the voting devices; the other 73 were members hand-counting ballots voter mistakenly made too many
Internet untouched by human hand-counting paper ballots, in the 1980s. marks on the ballot, a written
hands " Oklahoma has one Then in 1986, one large county “I now have representatives tape will print out for the
computer system one software purchased a prototype optical from other states and even other precinct inspector. Without see-
package, one voter registration scanning system. Its inaugural countries visiting us to see how ing the voter’s preferences, the
system and one office adminis- election was a disaster — ust smoothly our process performs,"
tration system in every county, about everything that could go
The state has one vote count- wrong did go wrong. That year,
ing, one tabulation system and at the urging of then-Election
one kind of ballot in every coun- Board Secretary Lee Slater, the are totaling correctly and to provides a more efficient, secure
ty. Oklahoma has one set of Legislature passed a law pro- make sure they catch any possi- and enhanced election process,"
laws, rules, procedures and op- hibiting the purchase of county ble error that might occur on Craig said.
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