Voting machines in Miami County have “a myriad of problems,” are near the end of their life and there are no guarantees that issues with them won’t occur during the March primary election, according to a county employee who has worked years with the equipment. Concerns about the voting machines come almost two months after the elections’ office voter registration system started developing problems just before Christmas. Phil Mote a seasonal employee who heads up the logic and accuracy testing of each voting machine, said despite his concerns, the machines are ready to go for the March 15 primary election. Early in-person voting begins Wednesday. “I feel confident we are going to put on a good election,” he said.
Mote told the board last week some machines were found in recent testing to jump to another candidate when a tester touched the screen. Any voting machine with that problem was taken out of use, he said.
“Based upon your programming and your testing, are you satisfied that that bug you just described is not present in any of the machines?” Jose Lopez, a BOE member, asked.
“I am because I told them if they ever hit it, let me know … I am not saying it couldn’t happen in field,” Mote said. If a voter would notice a change in vote and alert an election worker before casting the ballot, they could vote on another machine, he said.
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