ELECTION EQUIPMENT PUBLIC TEST

PUBLIC NOTICE
TESTING ELECTRONIC VOTING EQUIPMENT
for the SPRING PRIMARY,
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

STATE of WISCONSIN
City of Oconto

According to Wis. Stats. 5.84(1) Testing Equipment, the electronic voting equipment must be tested at a public meeting. The Optech-III PE and Edge II electronic voting systems which utilize automatic tabulating equipment will be tested on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009at 10:00 a.m. for the City of Oconto, 1210 Main Street, Oconto, WI.

Linda M. Belongia,
Administrator/Clerk/Treasurer
City of Oconto
Ph: 920-834-7711


The test is open to the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a pre-audited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate and on each referendum (when applicable). The test shall include for each office one or more ballots which have votes in excess of the number allowed by law in order to test the ability of the automatic tabulating equipment to reject such votes. An errorless count must be made before the Clerk can approve the equipment for use in the election.

Posted: January 14, 2009
Emailed and faxed to the Oconto County Reporter: January 14, 2009
Published: January 28th, 2009