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From the moment you have finished casting your ballot at your polling
place to the moment it is counted, your ballot is securely stored.
After the polls have closed,
the ballot box is opened by pollworkers
Pollworkers account for every ballot cast.
All voted ballots are then placed into a security red box and sealed.
Vote by Mail envelopes and Provisional envelopes are sealed in the Green
Striped Envelope. These materials contain live ballots that will be processed and
counted at the Registrar of Voters office in Norwalk.
The Red Box, Green Striped Envelope and Polling Place supplies are taken to a
local Check-In-Center.
The Red Box and the Green Stripe Envelope are placed in sealed grey
transport bags, where they're collected by Deputy Sheriffs and moved to an
adjacent airport. The bags are counted. The number of bags is radioed to the
landing site in Norwalk. Each bag is loaded onto a Sheriff's helicopter.
A temporary heliport is created in a large parking lot across from the
Registrar of Voters office in Norwalk.
The bags are counted as they are unloaded unverified with the number of
bags loaded.
The bags are then taken by them from the landing site to the Registrar of Voters
Office.
Here every Red Box is accounted for and scanned the to confirm receipt.
The Green Stripe Envelopes are also delivered to the Registrar of Voters
Office where they are scanned and sorted for processing.
Soon after the Red Boxes arrive in the Ballot Inspection area, they are unsealed
and the ballots inspected. Ballots are inspected to make sure they are not
damaged. They are sorted into trays and taken to the Microcomputer Tally System
room, where high-speed readers read and tally the votes.
The Vote by Mail and Provisional Ballots, which are delivered in the Green Ballot
Security Envelope,
are also being processed.
Results are not official until all these ballots are processed.
The Registrar of Voters
has twenty eight days to finalize vote.
Before counting,
every signature on the Vote by Mail envelopes must be verified.
Once the signature is verified, the envelopes are opened and the ballots are
loaded into trays to be counted.
The signatures on the Provisional Envelopes are also verified.
However, the eligibility of the voter must also be verified before the ballot
can be counted. Once the Provisional Ballot is cleared the, ballots are
removed from the envelopes and loaded into trays.
The Provisional Ballots and Vote by Mail Ballots are counted in the same way that
regular Election Day ballots are and added to the official vote count.
Once all ballots are counted, they are stored under lock and seal for a minimum
of twenty two months..
Every vote counts in an election.
The Registrar of Voters takes great pride in protecting and counting your
vote. We encourage you to exercise your right.
Vote! You Count!