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The D.C. Board of Elections has started testing more than 400 new voting machines for the upcoming June primary, which it says will lead to positive changes at the ballot box.

The machines are “a lot easier, better, faster, and stronger,” says Margarita Mikhaylova, spokesperson for D.C. BOE. Changes include live ballots for same-day voters and a quicker release of unofficial election data on Election Night, “We’re currently planning on releasing [all the results] in one go, if everything goes according to plan,” says Mikhaylova.

Faulty machines led to technical issues during the mayoral primary in 2014 and the 2008 general election.

Arguably the most crucial replacements for BOE, though, are man rather than machine. Earlier this week, Michael Bennett and Michael D. Gill, both local attorneys, were sworn in as new board members following their approval by the D.C. Council on Tuesday. They replaced two people whose terms had expired, and Bennett is the new chair.

A lawsuit filed last July by then-Chamber of Commerce president Harry Wingo alleged that the board wasn’t “properly constituted” when it approved language for a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage, though a ruling in Wingo’s favor could have affected all of the results of the 2014 election, though a judge recently ruled against him.

“The legitimacy of the elections board is important for the stability of a democracy,” Robert Marus, spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General, told DCist.

One slot that remains open over at BOE—executive director. A national search to replace Clifford Tatum, who left at the end of 2015, is “still underway,” says Mikhaylova. Terri Stroud, who has been with BOE since 1998, was appointed acting executive director in December.

In the past, BOE has been plagued with issues ranging in seriousness, from printing an upside-down D.C. flag on the voter guide to misplacing federal funds and an audit that found one in four polling places was not staffed properly during the 2014 general election.