In April 2018, all Pennsylvania counties were informed by the Commonwealth that they must select new voting systems that provide a verifiable paper record, and that those new systems be in place no later than the 2020 primary.
After many months of research and deliberations, Bucks County Board of Commissioners approved a new Clear Ballot system. Clear Ballot is a voter-verified paper ballot system that uses ballots lacking bar codes or QR codes. Voters complete paper ballots by hand and feed them into a scanner, which drops the ballot into a ballot bag for transportation to the Board of Elections office at the end of Election Day. The Clear Ballot scanners also scan an image of the completed ballots and tabulate results from each precinct for efficient Election Night reporting. All tabulated and scanned images are kept in a secured database and do not touch the Internet.
The Clear Ballot system also provides a ballot-marking device for each polling place for voters who require ADA provisions. The ballot-marking device prints a ballot identical to those provided to non-ADA voters at the polling place before it is fed into a scanner.
Below is the complete public schedule.
- February 24, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Technical High School, 610 Wistar Road, Fairless Hills
- February 25, 1 to 4 p.m., Quakertown Branch, Bucks County Free Library, 402 W. Mill St., Quakertown
- February 26, 5 to 8 p.m., Bensalem Municipal Building, 2400 Byberry Road, Bensalem
- March 3, 5 to 8 p.m., Sellersville Fire Department Hall, 2 N. Main St., Sellersville
- March 6, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Administration Building, 55 E. Court St., Room R110, Doylestown
- March 10, 1 to 4 p.m., Bensalem Municipal Building, 2400 Byberry Road, Bensalem
- March 17, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Community College, Newtown Campus, 275 Swamp Road, Newtown
- March 23, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Administration Building, 55 E. Court St., Doylestown
- March 30, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Ben Wilson Senior Activity Center, 580 Delmont Ave., Warminster
- April 7, 1 to 4 p.m., Juniper Village at Bucks County, 3200 Bensalem Blvd., Bensalem
- April 16, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Community College, Lower Bucks Campus, 1304 Veterans Highway, Bristol
- April 21, 5 to 8 p.m., Bucks County Community College, Perkasie Campus, One Hillendale Road, Perkasie