Ballot counting: Lots of security, many eyes and no internet

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MUKILTEO — In a 13,000-square foot office across the road from the Future of Flight museum, ballots cast by Snohomish County voters are getting processed at a painstaking pace.

Batches arrive each day and one-by-one proceed on a journey through a gantlet of inspection, verification and validation before they will be counted Nov. 8.

It’s all getting done by hand right now. When the counting machines are switched on, they won’t be connected to the internet where someone sitting on their bed or in the Kremlin could mess with them.

“I don’t have any concerns about the validity of the final vote,” Snohomish County Auditor Carolyn Weikel said as she watched men and women working on some of the 50,856 ballots returned as of Friday morning.

Anyone harboring concerns about potential tampering should come see for themselves how this phase of the decision-making process is conducted, she said.

http://www.heraldnet.com/news/county-auditor-stands-by-the-process-of-counting-ballots/

[Canoe52]

1. That's where my vote for Hillary was processed.

Moved to this state 4 years ago, voted for equal marriage and marijuana, I tell ya, what a state!