What
happens to your vote after you cast it?
The votes on the ballot are counted by an optical scan machine and the
ballot drops into a lock box. The tally is recorded on a memory card, and
poll workers make a printout of the results at the end of the night.
The county is involved in monitoring the primary as an agent of the
state because it includes races for federal office. The County Clerk’s
office will have all hands on deck Tuesday night, as municipal clerks
submit election results via modems, faxes or by physically bringing in
memory cards.
From the memory cards, the county clerk’s staff enters preliminary
results into a database, prints out the electronic tallies and records a
telephone message listing the outcome.
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