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Legals for April, 26 2023

| April 26, 2023 12:00 AM

No. 1767 NOTICE OF LOCATION AND METHOD FOR COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Clerk of Columbia Falls School District No. Six, Flathead County, State of Montana that Ballots for the School Election held on the 2 nd day of May, 2023, will be counted at the following location commencing May 1, 2023: Flathead County Election Office 290 B North Main Street Kalispell MT 59901 And these Ballots will be counted using the following method: Count Board Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated 13-15-112 a Counting Board comprised of three (3) election judges will begin the process of separating the secrecy envelopes from the signature envelopes as well as separating the ballots from the secrecy envelopes commencing at noon on Monday, May 1, 2023. This same process will resume at noon on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated 13-19-312(3), two (2) Election Judges will begin feeding the ES&S ballots into the tabulators on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 7 P.M.. This procedure will entail use of the high-speed, digital scan, ES&S DS850 Ballot Tabulator Machine. Resolution Board One (1) Election Judge will resolve any ballots unable to be tabulated by the machine. Public test of tabulators and ExpressVotes election equipment including a pre-election (acceptance and public) test and a random test on Election Day. The public test will be conducted at the County Election Office-Sperry Conference Room located at 290 North Main Street, Kalispell on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 1:00 PM. The Election Day equipment test will be conducted at the same location on May 2, 2023 at 5:00 PM. Additionally, an Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) ExpressVote ballot marking system will be available for the School Election at the following location: 501 6th Avenue West. The voting system will be on public exhibition at the county election office, located at: 290 B North Main, Kalispell, MT 59901 DATED this 20 day of April, 2023 District Clerk: Dustin Zuffelato Signature: Dustin Zuffelato April 26, 2023 MNAXLP __________________________