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7.1.D. - Page 20 <br /> also recruited. The stand-by workers had also served as inspectors in the past and were <br /> therefore more experienced than average poll workers. The group of assigned inspectors <br /> and stand-by workers had a 1.5 hour training on the Saturday before the election, at <br /> which each was able to have hands-on experience with the laptop containing the voter <br /> database and the e-Slate. One assigned worker who cancelled shortly before the election <br /> did not attend the training, so the class had 9 trainees. Several of the workers had staffed <br /> `early voting' for the County, in which, for prior statewide elections, polling places were <br /> set up around the county during a few weeks before the Election. Because any voter <br /> registered in Yolo county could go an early voting center to request a ballot, these <br /> centers were equipped with a laptop database that contained voter registration <br /> information for all registered voters in the county. These were the same laptops that were <br /> used on March 5, 2013, thus having experience working at an early voting station was <br /> helpful to the March 5 workers. The laptop database used on March 5, 2013 was <br /> different from that used in early voting, as it contained only the registered voters from the <br /> cities of Davis and West Sacramento, which is approximately 62,000 voters, and no other <br /> Yolo County voters. <br /> Voting Process <br /> Because this was an All Mail Ballot election, the voting at the polling place also <br /> followed the vote-by-mail process in that voted ballots were enclosed in signed <br /> envelopes, and the envelopes were processed at the election office in the same way as all <br /> other ballots; that is, the signature on the envelope was checked against the voter's <br /> signature on file with the county, and if that matched then the regular envelope opening <br /> 14 <br />