VoteCastWeb lets clerks queue placeholders for public commenters and time speakers

Trainer walked through the public-comment workflow: clerks can add speakers in advance (including placeholders such as "speaker 1") and set timers that can be adjusted during the meeting. The trainer noted you can extend a speaker's time — for example to allow for translation — and that the public display can include a speaker queue so the audience knows who is next.

Participants proposed prepopulating a default set of speaker slots to avoid entering names on the fly and to prevent misspellings appearing on the screen. The trainer recommended keeping the tab open while adding speakers because closing it will lose prepopulated entries.