A recent article from The Gateway Pundit, which has a history of promoting false voter conspiracy theories, claims that Dominion Voting System machines failed a logic and accuracy test in El Paso County, Colorado, “for the upcoming hand recount of the 2022 Primary election.”
In Colorado’s March primary, Mesa County clerk Tina Peters lost her primary bid for the secretary of state nomination by 88,224 votes and state Senate candidate Lynda Zamora Wilson lost her race by 8,710 votes.
According to the article, “The recount was ordered (and paid for) by some of the candidates, including Mesa Clerk Tina Peters and El Paso senate candidate Linda [sic] Zamora Wilson, who had her election inexplicably overturned AFTER it had been called by local news without any explanation.”
The article also references a viral tweet, which similarly claims that “Dominion voting machines fail logic & accuracy test in El Paso County, CO recount. Almost 60% of test ballots sent to adjudication.”
In an email to The Dispatch Fact Check, Annie Orloff, a spokeswoman for the Colorado secretary of state’s office, said that the “claim that the voting equipment test failed in El Paso County is false. There is no truth to the claim.”
First, some context on adjudication, which Orloff describes as “the number of times the voting system’s software identifies certain conditions on scanned ballots and sends them for human review to ensure the ballot is tabulated according to the voter’s intent.”
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