Miami-Dade County tests voting machines ahead of Election Day

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With fewer than three weeks until the presidential election on November 5, you may want to ensure that your ballot is counted accurately. The Miami-Dade Elections crew came out Wednesday afternoon to prove the correctness of their voting machines through Logic and correctness Testing, which ensures that all voting equipment works properly. Christina White, the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, outlined the process.

“There are so many security measures in place, and we test every single voting unit before it’s deployed before an election, and also in our tabulation center,” she told me. “This particular test is a public test, in which we allow candidates, political parties, and members of the general public to observe this operation in order for them to gain confidence. In fact, I frequently refer to it as the “confidence test.”

White went on to say, “We have a predetermined outcome on actual ballots with actual voting units, and we do everything from opening the machines to feeding the ballots in, closing them down, and collecting the results.” And we compare them to the anticipated conclusion, so we may conclude that the ballot was properly coded, the technology is functioning properly, and the results have been confirmed. So it’s one more method that we can demonstrate to the public that we’re prepared.

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