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Voting machines, mail ballots and recorder procedures draw scrutiny at Cochise County meeting
Summary
Public commenters raised concerns about voting machine testing, test-lab accreditation, and recent changes to procedures for overseas (UOCAVA) ballots. Board members asked staff to arrange a meeting with the county attorney, the elections director and the county recorder; elections staff said training and a logic-and-accuracy test are scheduled.
Public commenters at the Cochise County Board of Supervisors meeting on Aug. 19 pressed the board on voting-machine testing, the accreditation of voting system test laboratories and recent changes to procedures for overseas voters, and county staff described near-term training and testing steps.
Bradford (who identified himself on the record as Radford) Hyde, an attendee on Microsoft Teams, criticized the county’s handling of voting-machine compliance and the public record around it, saying the county elections director had mischaracterized whether the U.S. Election Assistance Commission tracks state engineering change orders. Hyde said VSTLs (voting system test laboratories) had not been accredited for some recent cycles and raised public-records concerns: “The VSTLs are not accredited and have not been accredited for a…
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