Hughes County Conducts Successful Test Of Ballot Tabulating Machines Wednesday

Hughes County Conducts Successful Test Of Ballot Tabulating Machines Wednesday

PIERRE, (KCCR) — Two ballot tabulating machines to be used on election night next week passed a public testing of the devices on Wednesday….

Hughes County Finance Officer Thomas Oliva says test went as expected…very well…

Oliva says the tabulating machines are secured with a number of security measures to indicate possible tampering…

To prevent having to break the seal to start the machine in the event of failure, back-up batteries and generators are on stand-by to keep the machines in working condition on election night.