How Benton County processes and verifies ballots, from L&A testing to audits
Elections staff described logic-and-accuracy testing, paper-based backups, bipartisan opening and adjudication teams, barcode batch tracking and mandatory hand counts used to verify machine results.
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Benton County elections staff detailed the step-by-step processes they use after ballots arrive: batch numbering, barcode scanning, signature-image capture and a multi-stage adjudication and audit system that the county says preserves a paper trail and enables recounts.
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