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-3- Early Voting Ballot Board at City Council Chambers, City Hall, 630 E. Hopkins in the City in accordance with the Election Code. Early votes shall be counted at the central counting station. The Early Voting Ballot Board shall perform in accordance with applicable provisions of the Election Code. SECTION 13. An electronic voting 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. Debbie Graham and Jeff McGill are appointed as programmers, and they shall prepare a program for the automatic tabulating equipment. Ample voting equipment shall be provided for early voting and in each of the various precincts on election day. The central counting station is established as the Justice Center, 110 Martin Luther King Drive, San Marcos, Texas. SECTION 14. The City Council of the City shall, 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 15. The election shall be held under, and in accordance with the provisions of, the Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Marcos, and in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas. SECTION 16. An executed copy of this Ordinance shall serve as proper notice of the election. SECTION 17. Notice of the election including a Spanish translation thereof, shall be published at least once in a newspaper published in San Marcos on or after October 5, 1997 and on or before October 27, 1997, and shall be posted on the bulletin board at City Hall on or before October 14, 1997. SECTION 18. A copy of this Ordinance shall be delivered on or before October 20, 1997 to the presiding judge of each election precinct in which the election is ordered to be held, which copy shall serve as a notice or writ of election as required by the Texas Election Code. SECTION 19. Testing of the automatic tabulating equipment shall be performed and notice thereof shall be given in accordance with Subchapter D of Chapter 127 of the Texas Election Code. SECTION 20. 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 is established at $5.00 per hour. SECTION 21. The additional compensation to be paid judges who deliver returns of the election is established at $25.00. SECTION 22. 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 23. 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 (10) days after the date of final passage are suspended, and this Ordinance will take effect upon publication of notice of its adoption in a newspaper of general circulation in the City. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of September , 1997.