So they have been with us for a while.Ĭynthia Bower: In my ten years. So, it’s a majority Dominion, some Hart, and then ES&S is the other vendor as well. Sara El-Rifaai: In Wayne County and for the majority of Michigan, there are very few counties that have either Hart or ES&S. Speaker 1: Do all the municipalities use the same machines or…? Each tabulator that goes out to the precincts is tested as well as the absentee equipment and then handicap equipment that also goes out to the precincts. It’s called an ICP and Image Cast Precinct.Ĭynthia Bower: That process is lengthy. This is the tabulator that we use on Election Day. We’re going to go ahead and plug the machine in. Sara El-Rifaai, Deputy City Clerk, Taylor MI: All right. So, every election cycle we test every machine that we use.
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| Photo by One Detroit Full Transcript:Ĭynthia Bower, City Clerk, Taylor MI: Pursuant to state law, we are required to test the voting equipment.
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Plus, Hendrickson ask voters who attended the public accuracy test on Jhow helpful it was to learn about the voting process and the reservations they still had afterward.ĭetroit Free Press reporter Clara Hendrickson, left, talks with a Taylor resident and voter following the city’s public voting accuracy test. They discuss how allegations of voter fraud in 2020 affected their jobs as city election officials, the threats and hate mail that was received around the 2020 election, the repercussions that come with attempts to tamper with an election at the local level, and the trust they hope to build with voters about the process. RELATED: Election Aftermath: An Analysis of Misinformation, Media Trust and our Democracy RELATED: Recounting Election Night 2020: Trouble at TCF Center Hendrickson talks with Bowers and the City of Taylor’s Deputy City Clerk Sara El-Rafaai to understand how a vote goes from the voter’s ballot to an official election result. Heading into the 2022 Michigan primary election, One Detroit teams up with Detroit Free Press reporter Clara Hendrickson to learn more about the voting accuracy test and how results are certified. “In order for people to understand the process, I think it is important for them to attend things like this,” Bowers said. Announcements were made in the city’s local newspaper and posted on bulletin boards, but this year Bowers’ office pushed the information out further, hoping to draw in a larger crowd. Taylor City Clerk Cynthia Bowers said the low voter turnout for the annual public voting accuracy test hasn’t been for a lack of trying, however. City of Taylor, MI Deputy City Clerk Sara El-Rifaai talks resident voters through the process of certifying a vote during an election.
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