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Dear Voters of Walton
County,
Your right to vote is
something that many Americans have fought and died for!
Your right to vote ensures that our government is "by the people, for
the people and of the
people". Democracy works
best when everyone participates in it.
The supervisor of elections administers all federal, state, and
county elections in
Walton
County
in accordance with the
Florida
election code, the Federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the National
Voting Rights Act (NVRA) the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee
Voting Act (UOCAVA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the
federal voting rights laws.
Apart from the general administration and office functions, the duties
of the elections office include but are not limited to Voter Services,
Elections, Candidates, Committees, and Voter and
Poll Worker Education.
All voting systems should be open to
rigorous inspection and testing.
Our voting systems in
Walton
County
are tested publicly. The
voting system used in
Walton
County
has been certified by the Federal Election Commission and certified by
the Chief Election Official in Florida.
Florida
has one of the most rigorous certification
processes in the United States for voting systems.
Our voting equipment provides
accessibility and empowerment to the widest population of voters.
Voters who are visually-impaired or non-readers, and those with
unique accessibility requirements are empowered to vote with
independence and privacy.
The equipment has several methods in place to ensure election accuracy.
When the voter casts his ballot on one of our touch screen systems,
it is immediately encrypted and stored in multiple locations within the
voting station, providing security and reliable redundancy.
If necessary, the ballot images that were voted on election day can
be printed. These images are
scrambled so that no one can tie a particular voter to a particular
ballot for secrecy purposes.
Our voting system has several layers of
physical and digital safeguards in place and multiple audit trails to
ensure security. This
county's system is secure, and we want the voting public to have the
same assurance and comfort level with our voting equipment as the
election staff has.
Sincerely,
Bobby Beasley, Supervisor of Elections

This website is dedicated to Melissa Beasley (1954-2003)
Supervisor of Elections from 1999-2003
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