For years, the county has depended on AutoMARK machines to provide a way for handcapped people to mark ballots in private. Prior to that, voters who needed help had to bring along a friend or relative to mark their ballots for them, or ask an election judge for help.
“If you’re not strongly opposed to this, we would like to move forward,” one commissioner said. “If there is strong opposition, we want to know it. We don’t want a bunch of turmoil over it nobody wants to throw themselves on a sword over it.”