Test of Ballot Tabulation Equipment Set for October 1, 2024

The County Elections Department wants the qualified electors of Mohave County to know that a Logic and Accuracy test will be conducted of the ballot tabulation equipment and programs for the November 5, 2024, General Election. The test will take place on October 1, 2024, at 8:20am by the Arizona Secretary of State. It will be performed by members of the Arizona Secretary of State’s elections staff.  Staff members will arrive and run test ballots marked by their office where all candidates and ballot measures received a random number of votes. 

The Secretary of State’s Office does not inform any of Arizona’s 15 county elections offices of the results of their test.  Once the testing of the counties’ tabulation equipment has been completed using the test deck supplied by the Secretary of State’s Office, these test results are then unsealed and made public and compared to the results of the counties’ election management system results.  This test is done in a public forum for all interested parties to observe and participate in the validation of the expected election results.

A separate test will be conducted by the Mohave County Elections Department at 1:00pm on October 1, 2024. The location of the tests is the Mohave County Election Department, 700 W. Beale, Kingman, AZ. The test is open to the press and the public.

All 15 Arizona counties voting systems are thoroughly tested by each county and the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office over an eight-day period leading up to and ending the day before Early Voting begins on October 9^th.

A test deck of 906 ballots will be tested at the 1:00 p.m. Mohave County Logic and Accuracy Test.  All candidates and ballot questions across 76 different ballots styles received a random number of votes.  It took 10 Mohave County staff members over a week to mark the test deck and validate the results of the logic and accuracy test.

After ballots have been tallied utilizing all three of the high-speed ballot scanners that will be used to tabulate the ballots for the 2024 General Election, the results will be uploaded into the election management system where results will be accumulated, reports generated, and then verified by members of the Republican and Democratic parties. The public, press and political parties are encouraged to attend and participate in this process on October 1.  Mohave County staff welcomes the opportunity to address any questions from those attending concerning anything involving the elections process.