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Ashley Hayes reporting With primary elections a little more than two weeks away, the Lieutenant Governor's office has kicked off election season with a new outreach voter program.
New machines are motivating an aggressive voting campaign this year. This is the first time all Utahns will use the new electronic voting machines.
County clerks want to make sure no one shies away from voting in the June 27th primary because they are intimidated by the them. They also want voters to become familiar with them by the big election in November.
As part of the campaign, promoters will hit the road in a decked out PT Cruiser. The logo "Vote, Leave your print" goes hand in hand with the new electronic touch screens.
Today at the Northwest Senior Center Lt. Governor Gary Herbert went through the new voting process with residents.
Joe Ross/ Senior Voter: "This is very simple. You can go back and correct yourself if a mistake is made. I like the machine."
In addition to the Cruiser, the Lt. Governor says they will be starting an aggressive television and radio campaign to get residents to vote in what is typically a low voter turn out election.
In this primary, residents can vote for U-S House candidates, state house and senate positions and state school board districts.
Early voting starts tomorrow. Lt Governor Herbert says it the perfect time for residents to familiarize themselves with the machines.
He feels confident the new machines will get rid of any previous problems like the issues of the hanging chads in Florida.
Gary Herbert / Lt. Governor: "We have a paper trail plus two computer chips....we have redundancy in the system so it's very secure."
Early voting begins tomorrow.
Just in case anyone is worried about who's footing the gas bill for the Cruiser to drive around town, a national gas company has donated the fuel.
