Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger visited the Hall County Elections Office Wednesday, one in a series of stops he’s making around the state for what he calls “voting system health checks.”
The health checks started two years ago and an aid to Raffensberger said Wednesday about a fourth of them have been made since then.
As the secretary watched, the county’s voting equipment was tested.
Raffensberger has said the tests involve running some ballots through the system, verifying that the equipment is ready when all is said and done. Raffensberger has said he wants every voter in the state to trust the system come election day in November.
Before he left, several members of Republican Women of Hall County showed up, some of whom carried signs proclaiming, “Paper Ballots Please.”
But Raffensberger is on record against paper ballots, adding that counting ballots by hand on election night would delay the reporting of election results and introduce risks to chain of custody procedures. And he added “Activists seeking to impose last-minute changes in election procedures outside of the legislative process undermine voter confidence and burden election workers.”
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