New voting machines are ready to go in Johnson County, just in time for the August Primary election.
County election officials are testing more than 1,000 new machines that will be used for the first time next month. The new technology allows for a more accurate count by allowing voters to print out a ballot to double check their vote is correct before submitting it.
“We have significant improvement in the technology available to us. They’re also different in their design in that they have a voter-verifiable paper trail, which means we will be able to go back and recreate and recount every vote,” said Ronnie Metsker, Johnson County election commissioner.
Each machine has a built-in tabulation device, which means election officials will have better access to real time results and updates. They replace voting machines that have been in use since 2002.
“That’s our goal, is to give regular and frequent output of the standards of how is our voting going as we tabulate throughout the evening we intend to give more results,” Metsker said.
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