All 15 Arizona counties pass voting equipment accuracy tests
A ballot tabulator at the Maricopa County Elections Center in downtown Phoenix.
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All 15 Arizona counties have passed tests conducted by the Secretary of State’s Office to verify the accuracy of voting equipment ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
State law requires the Secretary of State’s Office to conduct logic and accuracy tests on voting equipment used throughout the state to tally votes. The tests ensure voting equipment is operating correctly by essentially running mock elections for federal and statewide races using sample ballots provided by state election officials.
“No one knows how many ballots they’re bringing to their counties, so this is a blind test to the county officials,” said Scott Jarrett, Maricopa County’s elections director. “So they have no knowledge of the ballots that they selected, the contests they ended up voting, how they voted those contests.”
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