Bloomfield Township Election Commission Meeting October 23, 2025

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1. 0:00

   New tasks and responsibilities and it's been really great so thank you and with that our first task was is to open the unsealed and unpower on the tabulator we've done all that right okay great we're here to test one of the tabulators they'll be used on election day prior to today myself and I and the team conducted the logic and accuracy test on all of the machines including this one have been sealed and kept in the election storage area locked away for election day this one has been unsealed for testing and we resealed again after the end so that's the quick little summary of what we're doing the next item is approved the Election Commission minutes of October 24 2025 so moved support all those in favor aye and opposed motion carries next item as public comment seeing none I'll close public comment okay so here we are we're gonna to do an overview of the logic and accuracy testing procedures and results. Mr. Sean Mueller, who's now leading up this responsibility. We used to call it, he also was in charge of what used to be Dave's Cave. Now it's Sean's space, where all the election materials and equipment are maintained under lock and key. Yeah, well thank you. Thanks, Sean, welcome. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, morning election commission. Good morning. I want to personally thank Clerk Brooke for allowing me to expand my horizons with the election process. And I also want to acknowledge our past election equipment coordinator, Dave Prouch, for his support and his continued help to get me in the right transition. So thank you so much. So all voting equipment, as Clerk Brooke mentioned, was required to testing prior to the election. So today's public accuracy will replicate the process for everyone to see. All Bloomfield Township machines testing is completed in accordance with the state of Michigan's test procedure manual for tabulators and voting assistant terminal guidebook.

2. 1:15

   doing the next item is approved the Election Commission minutes of October 24 2025 so moved support all those in favor aye and opposed motion carries next item as public comment seeing none I'll close public comment okay so here we are we're gonna to do an overview of the logic and accuracy testing procedures and results. Mr. Sean Mueller, who's now leading up this responsibility. We used to call it, he also was in charge of what used to be Dave's Cave. Now it's Sean's space, where all the election materials and equipment are maintained under lock and key. Yeah, well thank you. Thanks, Sean, welcome. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, morning election commission. Good morning. I want to personally thank Clerk Brooke for allowing me to expand my horizons with the election process. And I also want to acknowledge our past election equipment coordinator, Dave Prouch, for his support and his continued help to get me in the right transition. So thank you so much. So all voting equipment, as Clerk Brooke mentioned, was required to testing prior to the election. So today's public accuracy will replicate the process for everyone to see. All Bloomfield Township machines testing is completed in accordance with the state of Michigan's test procedure manual for tabulators and voting assistant terminal guidebook. The tabulator testing includes the use of outside vendors, prepared test decks with a predetermined test results spreadsheet for accurate comparison. The tabulator's tally results taped of all voters, or of all voted ballots, must be matched to the predetermined test result spreadsheet exactly as passed in the test. The testing deck with the tabulator's result tape and all other testing items retain our records for audit purposes as well. And I'll see you next time. required by state law. The tabulators are then reset to zero before being locked, sealed, and recorded and distributed to the polling locations on the day of election. The TouchWriters testing includes creating ballots for a variety of additional tests. Some of these would include a program validation test, minimum and maximum votes allowed for ballots by the individual races, votes for position ballots are created, a blank ballot is created, and a hardware test ballot is created. These added ballots create an additional test deck that also must be scanned and compared for accuracy. The following successful testing, all voting equipment is stored and locked in a secured location with 24-hour surveillance on the township campus.

3. 2:30

   and voting assistant terminal guidebook. The tabulator testing includes the use of outside vendors, prepared test decks with a predetermined test results spreadsheet for accurate comparison. The tabulator's tally results taped of all voters, or of all voted ballots, must be matched to the predetermined test result spreadsheet exactly as passed in the test. The testing deck with the tabulator's result tape and all other testing items retain our records for audit purposes as well. And I'll see you next time. required by state law. The tabulators are then reset to zero before being locked, sealed, and recorded and distributed to the polling locations on the day of election. The TouchWriters testing includes creating ballots for a variety of additional tests. Some of these would include a program validation test, minimum and maximum votes allowed for ballots by the individual races, votes for position ballots are created, a blank ballot is created, and a hardware test ballot is created. These added ballots create an additional test deck that also must be scanned and compared for accuracy. The following successful testing, all voting equipment is stored and locked in a secured location with 24-hour surveillance on the township campus. The voting equipment is then delivered to the polling location in a locked-sealed security cart. The trained and sworn in poll workers are the only other people that have access to the voting equipment prior to the election itself. Are there any questions? Great, thank you. Seems very thorough. All right. Yeah, I took it from Dave. That's fine. All right, so without further ado, we'll cut the seal for the, um, the text, and we'll feed through the ballots. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's get the other side. I know.

4. 3:45

   location with 24-hour surveillance on the township campus. The voting equipment is then delivered to the polling location in a locked-sealed security cart. The trained and sworn in poll workers are the only other people that have access to the voting equipment prior to the election itself. Are there any questions? Great, thank you. Seems very thorough. All right. Yeah, I took it from Dave. That's fine. All right, so without further ado, we'll cut the seal for the, um, the text, and we'll feed through the ballots. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's get the other side. I know. All right, so we have seven test ballots, each one with a different scenario. When they spit it back out, there will be a button that will ask to tabulate as is. You'll hit that button to let it go through. There will be one that will spit back out and not show that. That's because it's determined to show a different precinct. Yep, if you want to split more. There's seven total, so. Yep, and forwards, backwards, you can try it either way. It should scan the results. All right, then you'll hit the button, cast ballot as is. All right, yep, wait until... Okay. All right. The green lights show up again, and there you go.

5. 5:00

   All right, so we have seven test ballots, each one with a different scenario. When they spit it back out, there will be a button that will ask to tabulate as is. You'll hit that button to let it go through. There will be one that will spit back out and not show that. That's because it's determined to show a different precinct. Yep, if you want to split more. There's seven total, so. Yep, and forwards, backwards, you can try it either way. It should scan the results. All right, then you'll hit the button, cast ballot as is. All right, yep, wait until... Okay. All right. The green lights show up again, and there you go. All right. Because I believe that one had a correct, it was either one or yes or no option. I'll fill them. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yep, you can do it any way you can. But this last one, you have the last ballot, so it's going to say, yep. It's from, it can't read the barcode and you can't cast it.

6. 6:15

   All right. Because I believe that one had a correct, it was either one or yes or no option. I'll fill them. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yep, you can do it any way you can. But this last one, you have the last ballot, so it's going to say, yep. It's from, it can't read the barcode and you can't cast it. is because it's from a different precinct as the test requires yeah you can pull it out right just so you nicely demonstrates that we're good and there we go thank you okay okay so close the poles great so next up we're closing the poles and we'll run the results tape and compare that against the predetermined results which are a mixture of incorrectly filled out ballots and correctly filled out ballots and ballot from a different precinct there we go I was doing the other right there's so many codes by the way as you can see it's creating the report three two two two one one oh okay down there one more one more one more thank you

7. 7:30

   is because it's from a different precinct as the test requires yeah you can pull it out right just so you nicely demonstrates that we're good and there we go thank you okay okay so close the poles great so next up we're closing the poles and we'll run the results tape and compare that against the predetermined results which are a mixture of incorrectly filled out ballots and correctly filled out ballots and ballot from a different precinct there we go I was doing the other right there's so many codes by the way as you can see it's creating the report three two two two one one oh okay down there one more one more one more thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Okay, just do that right now. You just need one of them. Yep. It's creating the other two. So for our purposes today, we just need the one result.

8. 8:45

   thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Okay, just do that right now. You just need one of them. Yep. It's creating the other two. So for our purposes today, we just need the one result. I'm just talking it through. Election night, there will be three different tapes, end up going to three different locations for review. Prepare to... Oh, yeah. Who wants to review the... Yep, who wants to review the... All right, so there's the total here of everything. Mm-hmm. And then you match it up. Well, you'll read it. You may... you read it out loud Sean and can you help Dina with Val make sure she's reviewing that right so then there should be two yes votes one no vote two under votes yep under oh here so then three total so you should be yep under and over it's not gonna tell you under and over on this one yeah I would say I don't see it yeah that's correct

9. 10:00

   So for our purposes today, we just need the one result. I'm just talking it through. Election night, there will be three different tapes, end up going to three different locations for review. Prepare to... Oh, yeah. Who wants to review the... Yep, who wants to review the... All right, so there's the total here of everything. Mm-hmm. And then you match it up. Well, you'll read it. You may... you read it out loud Sean and can you help Dina with Val make sure she's reviewing that right so then there should be two yes votes one no vote two under votes yep under oh here so then three total so you should be yep under and over it's not gonna tell you under and over on this one yeah I would say I don't see it yeah that's correct yep we have the reports here so the results are it passed it failed it passed passed the past so they're the tapes match the predetermined results and the machine is approved for tabulation for election day any questions no okay great so the last thing is consider approval of a voting assist terminal and and testing security certificate form for the tabulators and program certification form. These documents are the official documents recording the logic and accuracy testing that have been done on all the machines and the public accuracy testing today and entertain a motion or any questions. So moved. Support. Great. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any motion carries, 3-0. And unless there's any questions, I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. So moved.

10. 11:15

    yep we have the reports here so the results are it passed it failed it passed passed the past so they're the tapes match the predetermined results and the machine is approved for tabulation for election day any questions no okay great so the last thing is consider approval of a voting assist terminal and and testing security certificate form for the tabulators and program certification form. These documents are the official documents recording the logic and accuracy testing that have been done on all the machines and the public accuracy testing today and entertain a motion or any questions. So moved. Support. Great. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any motion carries, 3-0. And unless there's any questions, I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Support. All those in favor? Aye. Motion carries. We're adjourned. Thank you. Thank you.