Athens Reporter

The Athens-Clarke County Elections Department will conduct a logic and accuracy test on all voting equipment to be used in the June 18, 2024 General Primary/Nonpartisan Election Runoff. The testing is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at 10:00 AM at the Athens-Clarke County Facilities and Landscape Management Building located at 2555 Lexington Road, Athens, Georgia, 30605. Testing will continue from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM each day until all units have been tested and proven accurate.

Political parties/bodies, news media, and the general public are invited to observe the testing process.

The State of Georgia mandates logic and accuracy testing through specific procedures prior to every election. As part of this process, staff from the Athens-Clarke County Elections Department will run tests on paper-based voting units, check-in systems, and optical scan systems used for recording absentee ballots.

The initial phase involves receiving a secure election database from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. This database is utilized to create memory cards for the voting equipment, program the devices, and produce ballots and reports.

Following memory card creation for the voting system, logic and accuracy procedures include testing voter access card creation, ballot display on screens, paper ballot printing, ballot scanning, vote collection, and tabulation results. Units are calibrated during this process; they undergo physical inspection and recording.

All races, headers, race titles, candidates' names as well as their placement order are visually checked on touch-screen units using voter access cards. Additionally,

ballots are verified for proper audio and magnification assistance features.

Once a machine has been tested and proven accurate it is sealed and stored in a secure building until Election Day with tightly controlled access. The Athens-Clarke County Elections Department adheres to state laws contained in the Official Code of Georgia along with State Election Board rules concerning testing and storing of voting equipment.

For more information contact the Board of Elections at 706-613-3150 or visit www.accgov.com/elections.

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