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Danny Willcox and Jim Duvall compare the voting results generated by the system to the ballots they submitted.
Logic and accuracy checks are done before each election BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Two representatives of the Republican Party and two representatives of the Democratic Party in Elbert
County met with Elections Manager Rhonda Braun and Elbert County Clerk and Recorder Dallas Schroeder on Oct. 3 with one goal in mind — to trick the county’s voting machines. Jim Duvall and Tracy Ducharme, Democrats, and Gary Mayfield and Danny Willcox, Republicans, brought with them 25 test ballots, which they had filled out with varying degrees of accuracy. Ballots were run through the voting machines to test for logic and accuracy ahead of the upcoming
November election. “My staff and I have already been running test ballots through,” said Braun, who has been the elections manager in Elbert County for more than five years. “We’ve done all the funky things ahead of time.” Legally Braun has to test the machines before and after each election, and test runs are a good way to spot any problems, such as the ballots not feeding through the scanner as smoothly as they should, which hap-
PHOTO BY TABATHA STEWART
pened to Willcox and Duvall Oct. 3. According to Braun, there are nearly 20,000 registered voters in Elbert County, and each individual vote has to be processed meticulously. As ballots are received, they are date stamped, bundled into batches of 25, and their signature tabs removed. Ballots from property owners who may have several addresses, ballots from other counties and envelopes SEE MACHINES, P7
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