Photo by Mike Brothers
Board of Elections Supervisor Kyle Thomas and County Clerk Georgia England during the State Board election equipment testing in Moultrie County last week.

•October 19, 2016•

Moultrie County’s new Unisyn election equipment was given an A+ during testing by the Illinois Board of Elections, October 13.

Three representatives of the Board of Elections chose Moultrie County for a random check and pretest of the election voting and tabulation system.

“We pretest all the equipment  for function, touch screen accuracy and calibration,” B of E evaluator Bruce Brown, said of the testing process.

Moultrie County replaced its 25 year old voting system with the new Unisyn system in the spring. Liberty Systems LLC, handles software support for Moultrie County, and Ken Gibson noted the confidence in the Unisyn system has grown and Liberty Systems has added Clark and Macon counties to service this election.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.