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SECTION 10. A Direct Record Electronic ("DRE") System, as the term is defined in the Texas Election Code, shall be utilized in connection with the election. This system shall be utilized for all early voting as well as for all precinct voting conducted on election day. Jeff McGill is appointed as programmer, and shall prepare a program for the automatic tabulating equipment. Ample voting equipment shall be provided for early voting and in each ofthe various precincts on election day. The central counting station is established as the Hays County Elections Administrator's office, 401-C Broadway, San Marcos, Texas. SECTION 11. The City Council will, by resolution, appoint the Early Voting Ballot Board, a Presiding Judge of the Central Counting Station, a Tabulation Supervisor of the Central Counting Station, and a Central Counting Station Manager, and any and all assistants appointed by the Presiding Judge and Tabulation Supervisor shall be subject to the approval of the City Council. SECTION 12. The election will be held in accordance with the provisions ofthe Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Marcos and the laws of the State of Texas. SECTION 13. An executed copy of this Ordinance will serve as proper notice of the election. SECTION 14. Notice of the election, including a Spanish translation thereof, will be published at least once in a newspaper published in San Marcos on or after October 9, 2005 and on or before October 31, 2005, and will be posted on the bulletin board at City Hall on or before October 18,2005. SECTION 15. A writ of election as required by the Texas Election Code will be delivered on or before September 28, 2005 by the Hays County Election Administrator to the presiding and alternate judges of each election precinct in which the election is ordered to be held. SECTION 16. Testing ofthe automatic tabulating equipment will be performed and notice thereof will be given in accordance with Subchapter D of Chapter 127 of the Texas Election Code. SECTION 17. The rate of compensation to be paid judges, clerks, and assistants to the Central Counting Station Presiding Judge and Tabulation Supervisor for services rendered during the election will be compensated at the rate of $7.00 per houf. SECTION 18. The additional compensation to be paid judges who deliver returns of the election is established at $25.00. SECTION 19. If any portion of this Ordinance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 20. The importance of this Ordinance creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity, and the provisions of the Charter requiring that ordinances be presented at three separate meetings, and that ordinances do not take effect until ten days after the date of its final -4- Election 2005.wpd