The shuffling of ballots making its way through one of the four tabulator machines at the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder's Office is a sound employees are used to.

Ahead of the November 4 Special Election, the Clerk-Recorder's Office performed a Logic and Accuracy test as required by election code. On Thursday, they ran more than 4,000 test ballots through their ballot-counting machines.

During general election years, like in 2024, they had to test over 80,000 ballots.

“It's a big difference. The processes are still the same. It's just the quantity," Clerk-Recorder Elaina Cano explained.

The public was invited to sit in on the process.

In 2022, . She was among the community members at the elections office on Thursday, eager to watch the testing and make sure that what is being

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