PUBLIC NOTICE

TESTING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT

FOR THE SPRING PRIMARY ELECTION

 

STATE of WISCONSIN

IOWA COUNTY

 

According to Wis. Stats. 5.84(1) Testing Equipment, the electronic voting equipment must be tested at a public meeting.  The DS200 and ExpressVote electronic voting systems, which utilize automatic tabulating equipment, will be tested on Friday, February 14th at 8:15 am located at:

 

VILLAGE OF COBB

Carley Rider, Clerk

Village Office

501 Benson Street

Cobb, WI  53526

(608)623-2777

 

The test is open to the public.  The test shall be conducted by processing a pre-audited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each referendum (when applicable).  The test shall include for each office one or more ballots which have votes in excess of the number allowed by law in order to test the ability of the automatic tabulating equipment to reject such votes.  An errorless count must be made before the Clerk can approve the equipment for use in the election.