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Madison County clerk praises smooth turnout, flags touchscreen calibration issue with ballot-marking devices
Summary
County Clerk Kenny Barger told the Madison County Fiscal Court that four days of in-person voting produced 42,915 voters (a 56% turnout) and that calibration/software quirks in large-screen ballot-marking devices required daily recalibration though a random hand-count audit matched machine results.
County Clerk Kenny Barger told the Madison County Fiscal Court on Nov. 12 that the recent election ran well overall but revealed recurring calibration and software issues with the county’s large-screen ballot-marking devices.
Barger said the four days of in-person, no-excuse voting produced 42,915 votes — a 56% turnout across the county — and that early voting outpaced election-day turnout. “Early turnout was 29% and election day turnout was 27%,” he said, and praised precinct officers and voters for keeping lines moving.
On equipment, Barger described touchscreen calibration problems that can cause…
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