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Testing begins on Georgia voting machines

Testing of voting equipment has begun in Georgia.

Election officials are conducting a process called logic and accuracy testing, a routine but important process to help ensure that 34,000 touchscreens and 4,000 ballot scanners will count votes accurately this fall.

Testing depends on elections workers completing the tedious process of verifying every race on every piece of equipment, an effort that will take weeks in large counties. Logic and accuracy testing will continue across Georgia for weeks until all equipment has been checked.

Three weeks of early voting starts on Oct. 17, and Election Day is Nov. 8.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.