{"id":49747,"date":"2026-10-20T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=49747"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:37:10","slug":"notice-of-public-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/49747-notice-of-public-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Public Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Notice is hereby given of a public test of the Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology Equipment and Program used by Effingham County, Illinois for the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. This test will be conducted by the Effingham County Clerk&#8217;s office on Thursday, October 22nd at 9:30 a.m. and will take place on the third floor of the Effingham County Office Building located at 101 N Fourth Street in Effingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice is hereby given of a public test of the Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology Equipment and Program used by Effingham County, Illinois for the General Election on Tuesday, November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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