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Snohomish County Elections will conduct the official logic and accuracy test on its ballot counting system for the August 5 Primary and Special Election at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at the Snohomish County Elections Center, 3rd Floor, Admin West Bldg., 3000 Rockefeller Ave., Everett. The test is open to the public. Representatives of political parties, candidates, campaigns, districts, the press, and the public are welcome to attend.
The Aug. 5 Primary winnows the field of candidates for the General Election for local offices, including county council, city/town mayor and council, school board director, and fire district commissioner. The election also features local ballot measures for Fire District 4, Marysville Fire District RFA, and North County Regional Fire Authority.
Ballot counting equipment and programming testing occurs before each election. Logic and accuracy test requirements are outlined in state law and ensure that the ballot counting system is correctly counting votes. The logic and accuracy test is witnessed by staff from the Washington State Secretary of State’s Office for federal and state elections.
The logic and accuracy test involves scanning and counting a group of marked test ballots with a known set of results. The group of test ballots, called the test deck, includes valid votes for each candidate and response, as well as improperly marked ballots, to ensure the system correctly identifies and handles each situation. After the test deck has been processed through the ballot counting equipment, the ballot counting system results are compared to the expected result for the test deck to ensure that the results match.
Accessible voting equipment and electronic ballot duplication will be pretested at 1 p.m. July 15. These tests are also open to the public.
For more election observer opportunities, visit Observe the Elections Process | Snohomish County, WA - Official Website (snohomishcountywa.gov).
For questions, call 425-388-3444 or email elections@snoco.org.
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