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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gordon McCloud finds that the lower court improperly found that breath alcohol tests performed in Kitsap County and done on Dräger Alcotest 9510 machines violated local state statutes and could not be used for evidence. The lower court is correct that under Washington law, a state toxicologist must approve the methods and math behind test result calculations and the Dräger Alcotest machines do not calculate the math correctly under the statue. However, the machines do not need to do the math alone, as the state is still allowed to do the math according to the law, and there is nothing under the law that states the breath machines have to do that math. As long as the calculations were done correctly by the state, results from the breath tests can still be used as evidence. Reversed.