Reply #5: FL: Osceola County's early-voting ballots will be printed on demand [View All]

A federal grant will help the county in its bid to reduce waste from printing for too many voters.

Mark Pino | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 1, 2008

A federal grant will help the Osceola County Supervisor of Elections Office print early-voting ballots on demand.

Two vendors are pitching systems that will eliminate the waste of printing too many ballots.

The idea is to take the elections office out of the fortunetelling business because it would no longer have to try to predict how many people from each precinct are going to vote at each early voting site, said Supervisor of Elections Connie Click.

"Anybody from any precinct can show up at any time" at any early-voting location, Click said. That means every site must have copies of every ballot.

Many of the preprinted ballots go unused and eventually must be destroyed.

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