El Paso County clerk conducts accuracy test, as Tina Peters claims errors in process
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)-- Colorado Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters lost the GOP primary by nearly 90,000 votes, but this week forked over enough money, $230,000 to get a recount.
Now, the El Paso county Clerk and Recorder's office is preparing for that recount, conducting logic and accuracy tests to ensure the voting machines work correctly before the recount.
According to Clerk Chuck Broerman, the tests have been completed and showed 100% accuracy. Still, Peters says that's not true.
"So after all these hours, they finally got it right," Peters told KRDO sarcastically. "I have to laugh. I really do. I've never heard of a logic and accuracy test taking more than an hour."
According to Broerman, the county has more recount requests than others in the state.
"El Paso County is unique due to the fact we are conducting four recounts simultaneously and is the only county in the state that had a request for multiple requested recounts. The L&A test is an integral process that verifies ballots are counted accurately, confirms the efficacy of the results and instills voters with confidence in our elections."
Peters doesn't believe that. She wants a hand count of the ballots and is convinced the voting machines are not trustworthy.
"There's nobody in the state that trusts those machines. Actually, there's no one in the country that trusts those machines," she said.
Broerman claims there are no errors with the machines, and Peters is spewing lies.
"Our equipment completely passes the election. That is not true. And unfortunately, I think that's indicative of misinformation and disinformation that is going out."
Peters claims there were ample witnesses present to watch the "utter humiliation of the test failures" and that there was an over 50% error rate.
Broerman again, says that's just not true.
"We're professionals here. We're state and nationally-certified. We do the testing of our equipment before the election like we're doing today. We did that in the primaries, and then we do our post-election audit."
Broermen the recounting of the 153,000 ballots that were cast in the primary will happen Sunday at 10 a.m.
