The Buchanan County Clerk’s office spent Wednesday afternoon testing machines ahead of the November election.

County Clerk Mary Baack-Garvey said a bipartisan team runs sample marked ballots through each machine to ensure every candidate on every ballot gets counted.

“If we have a problem we know we can fix it right away,” Baack-Garvey said. “We treat the tests for every election the exact same way.”

The clerk’s office has a total of 30 machines for 25 polling places.  Baack-Garvey said there are five extras just in case.

“In case a machine goes down on election day we have extras here to back-up and take out to the polling places,” Baack-Garvey said.

She said with only two weeks left the clerk’s office is almost ready to go.

“We’ve got the supplies all done,” Baack-Garvey said. “Our next step after today is to pack all these up to get them ready for shipment on Monday before election.  Then we get the I Pads out.  Get them ready for check-in on election day.  Other than that it’s absentee voting like crazy.”

Baack-Garvey is anticipating a voter turnout of around 80-percent.

“We have 105 percent turnout ballots so we’ll never run out,” Baack-Garvey said.

If anyone has concerns about their voter registration or concerns

on election day Baack-Garvey said to give the clerk’s office a call 816-271-1412.  To look at sample ballots for the Nov. 8 election CLICK HERE.