Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.

Clark County residents casting in-person votes in next year’s midterm elections will be greeted by a new step in the process.

While check-in at polling sites will remain the same, voters will now receive a printed version of their ballot after making their selections on a voting machine.

They will then carry that to another machine, which will tabulate the vote. Those paper ballots are stored for any potential audit or recount, said Lorena Portillo, the county’s registrar of voters.

The change is intended to strengthen public confidence in voting results and expedite ballot tallies, county election officials said.

“We are conducting many tests — test elections, in fact — that will also help us understand what voters will see, the

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