FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office conducted logic and accuracy testing Friday morning on voting equipment ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n
The testing was scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Melvin Morgan Constitutional Complex, located at 2480 Thompson St. in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
According to the Elections Office, the testing is required by Florida law and is designed to verify that voting systems and equipment are functioning properly and accurately counting ballots.<\/p>\n
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The tests cover tabulators used for vote-by-mail, early voting and Election Day voting.<\/p>\n
The testing was open to the public and conducted in the presence of the Lee County Canvassing Board.<\/p>\n
The board includes Lee County Judge Devin George, Investigative Supervisor Steven A. Scalici of the State Attorney’s Office for the 20th Judicial Circuit and Fort Myers City Councilman Fred Burson.<\/p>\n
Lee County Supervisor of Elections Jenna Persons-Mulicka is not serving on the Canvassing Board for the general election because she is a candidate on the ballot.<\/p>\n
According to the Elections Office, Persons-Mulicka will continue performing her regular duties, including serving in an advisory capacity to the board, as required by Florida law.<\/p>\n
Chief Judge J. Frank Porter appointed Burson to serve in her place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Supervisor of Elections Office conducted logic and accuracy testing Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,166917,166913,2715,83425,166915,166914,28,34220,166918,99,166916,6272,166439],"class_list":["post-423401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-election-systems-software","tag-election-technology","tag-elections","tag-elections-office","tag-electoral-fraud","tag-electronic-voting","tag-florida","tag-general-election","tag-lee-county-canvassing-board","tag-politics","tag-smartmatic","tag-state-attorney","tag-voting-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}