Ballot counting #2

An hour plus has past now and ballots are still be counted. 874 have been counted, roughly one third. The way it works is the ballots are removed from the envelope by the MAC in blocks of 50. They are then counted to make sure there are 50, then collected as a block and given to the person who then scans them into a portable counting machine. Because each district ballot is differennt, the machine knows the difference between districts. Unlike some previous years before the election process was outsourced, there won't be any real interim results, just a final one. Note that board members John Sloan and Chris Bunch are official observers, with candidate Tom DeLong stopping by, listening to MAC member Heidi Titchenal.