Election workers are preparing for anything to happen March 8th. For the past two weeks they've been working overtime playing through different scenarios.
"Last thing we want to do is have voter frustration if they have to wait" said Angela Wilson. "The biggest things when I've worked an election is sometimes the machine gets a little fussy."
One thing they've been practicing over and over again is what to do when voting machines fall apart. Something that happens often.
"Anytime we have a situation at the tabulator, it really has, it's a domino effect. It starts slowing things down throughout the whole voting process" Wilson said.
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum fears the outdated voting machines will only slow things down and add frustration.
"Anytime we have a situation at the tabulator, it really has, it's a domino effect." Byrum said. "It starts slowing things down throughout the whole voting process."
Byrum is worried the voting machines could be a disaster waiting to happen.
"I know the results are good, my concerns are the time it takes and the communication problems we are seeing with this memory pad" said Byrum.
Most tabulators in the state are either 10 years or much older. To replace one with a more updated machine would cost $3,000 and to do that for the entire state could cost millions.
"There's on the order of $50 million dollars that we're working toward, about 25 to 30 [million dollars] we have saved up" said Fred Woodhams, Spokesman for Secretary of State. "So we do have resources already available to us. But we do need that appropriation and we are working to ensure that gets signed into law."
He says there haven't been many problems with the machines and the secretary of state's office wants to keep it that way.
"You know we want to act now before there are widespread problems" Woodhams said.
For many election workers they're making the old equipment last.