Puerto Rico: Last Minute Machine Testing Caused Critical Election Day Flaws | Damaris Suárez/Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
Just five days before polling stations opened, the State Elections Commission (CEE, in Spanish) had nearly 1,000 optical scanners used to cast ballots that had not undergone logic and accuracy testing, despite being slated as replacements for any that malfunctioned on the day of the general elections.These tests, which ensure that the machines and other electoral equipment function correctly and accurately count the votes marked on the ballots, were conducted by CEE staff without the assistance of Dominion Voting Systems, the company that sold the equipment and had previously supported this task, according to an investigation by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI). Read Article