Testing system before election--Notice--Publication--Certification of errorless machine--Promulgation of rules--Additional testing if error found--Independent candidate and ballot committee contact information

Not more than ten days prior to an election, the person in charge of the election shall conduct a test of the automatic tabulating equipment to ascertain that the equipment will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all measures. The test must be open to the public. The person in charge of the election shall notify the county chair of each political party with a candidate on the ballot, any independent candidate or candidate without party affiliation on the ballot, and the ballot question committees for or against an initiated or referred measure or initiated constitutional amendment, of the testing of the automatic tabulating equipment, one week before the test is conducted. The person in charge of the election shall post notice of the time and place of the test in the same manner as a public meeting agenda, pursuant to §