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As this year's presidential election approaches, you'll probably hear a lot about election integrity.
That's part of the reason that the Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections office is publicly testing its equipment and giving people a chance to see how accurate their voting tabulation machines are. The logic and accuracy test is also required under Florida law ahead of every election.
It checks the equipment to make sure ballots are being properly counted.
The Hillsborough County Canvassing Board oversaw the tabulator test, and the results came back exactly as expected: accurate to the last vote.
“We had a random sample of our tabulators that are going to be used election day and early voting, and then all of our high-speed scanners that we use for vote by mail,” Hillsborough Supervisor of Election Craig Latimer said.
Despite failed legal challenges, hand recounts and more, election officials say conspiracy theories about inaccurate vote counts persist.
Chris Gleason was among the public observers who still had questions about the election integrity. He was one of about a dozen public observers watching, and in some cases, taking video of the process.
Despite the transparency, he says he came away as skeptical as ever.
“A lot of the problems and issues that we identified, I confirmed,” he said. Gleason raised questions about modems attached to Hillsborough’s voting tabulators, which he contends can be hacked.
Latimer says that's not true.
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/hillsborough-county-election-integrity-testing/67-bb443122-4783-464e-b4a0-e61c082b7868
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