Elgin voters got a chance to try out the electronic ballot-marking machines that will be exclusively used during early voting this year during an open house hosted by the Bastrop County Elections Department at the Elgin Public Library, an early-voting polling location. This system, in which a ballot is printed out after a voter checks in before being marked in the machine, will be used during early voting due to the high number of different types of ballots during this fall election and the fact that voters from any precinct can vote at any of the county's four polling locations ...