COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Branch County voters will get to use some new technology at the polls today. New voting machines are being used in Branch and in seven other counties in the region including Calhoun and St. Joseph Counties.
The new machines feature touch screens in place of paper ballots. The machines are also designed to get election results out faster than the old ones by sending the votes straight to county clerks when the polls close.
Five other west Michigan counties will use the machines next year.
Will eligible voters be apathetic to the Coldwater Community School District millage and bonding proposal on Tuesday’s ballot? Branch County Clerk Terry Kubasiak says when a ballot question passed in 2013, there was a 19 percent turnout. When a pair of bond issues were turned down in 2015, the turnout was 22.3 percent.
