New digs for Porter County’s election equipment lent a little variety Friday morning to the usual test of the machines prior to the May primary. Staff from the Porter County Elections & Voter Registration Office began at 8 a.m. on the dot with the Pledge of Allegiance and running the voting machines and tabulator through their paces in the basement storage room at 155 Franklin St. in Valparaiso. The space looks much the same as the old storage room in the Porter County Parking Garage where half of the machines...

Holy Cross College students help to test voting machines in a county warehouse Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at the meeting of the St. Joseph County Election Board. SOUTH BEND — The St. Joseph County Election Board authorized the county clerk’s office on Wednesday to reject voter registration forms for 27 people who didn’t provide enough information. Also at the board’s meeting, Holy Cross College students helped to test about a dozen voting machines, a mere fraction of all the machines that will be used in this year’s spring primary and...