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Go behind the scenes in casting that BALLOT Sign-up now underway for Citizens Elections Academy Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) – You are being invited to go behind the scenes of Election Day. Lisa Hayes, the elections administrator for Guadalupe County says citizens can now have the answers to their election questions thanks to this summer’s Citizens Elections Academy. In fact, Hayes says residents are being encouraged to apply for one of two free opportunities in which they can better understand the election process in Guadalupe County. “We’ve got two summer sessions scheduled and each session consists of two classes, so the next session is going to be July 30 and Aug. 1. and the second session will be Aug. 6 and Aug. 8. The classes run about three hours and voters can sign up on our website. There is an application, and they just complete the application and submit it. They need to let us know what session they want to sign up for and basically, we cover everything from registering to vote to tabulating the election results on election day and they get to come in and help us with that. They get to help with logic and accuracy testing on the voting machines from mock election and then, they get to review signatures on mail ballots that are returned and of course, this is all for mock elections. It’s not real information but the processes are the same,” said Hayes. Hayes says the local office inspired the
innovative idea last fall. She says its initial success has prompted her office to again offer the opportunity. “It has been a real, I say an asset to our process of the elections office too because it allows the voters to come in and actually see
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what happens in our office behind the scenes because most people see the stuff on the other side of the counter. They see the election. They see their voter registration certificate arrive and all of these things Academy, pg. 3