Porter County tests election equipment days before early voting begins

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New digs for Porter County’s election equipment lent a little variety Friday morning to the usual test of the machines prior to the May primary. The Porter County Board of Elections & Registrat…

Porter County Elections & Voter Registration Office Director Sundae Schoon stands in the newly constructed closet that houses the DS850 in between elections as she and the board of elections prepare to test it in advance of the primary election.

Staff from the Porter County Elections & Voter Registration Office began at 8 a.m. on the dot with the Pledge of Allegiance and running the voting machines and tabulator through their paces in the basement storage room at 155 Franklin St. in Valparaiso. The space looks much the same as the old storage room in the Porter County Parking Garage where half of the machines are still being stored until they’re deployed for the election on May 7.

Office Director Sundae Schoon said that while the board is only required by law to test 5% of the machines at the public test they always do more and then the staff keeps going.Moulton wanted to know how long the office had to keep the test results. Schoon told him 22 months.

 

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