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Snohomish County Elections will conduct the official logic and accuracy test on its ballot counting system for the November 4 General and Special Election at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 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 Nov. 4 General Election features a statewide ballot measure and local races for court of appeals judge, county council, county charter review commissioner, city/town mayor, council, and municipal court judge, and races for school, fire, water and wastewater, hospital, port, and park and recreation districts. It also features local ballot measures for City of Bothell, City of Edmonds, City of Mukilteo, Fire District 27, and Northshore Park and Recreation Service Area.
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 results for the test deck to ensure that the results match.
Accessible voting equipment and electronic ballot duplication will be pretested at 1 p.m. Oct. 14. 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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