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Albemarle County trains ballot officers on ballot counting, handling and end-of-day procedures
Summary
The Albemarle County Department of Elections ran a training for ballot officers covering how to count and document ballot packs, manage spoiled and provisional ballots in envelope 4, use the ballot tally sheet and ballot record report, and use ExpressVote as an emergency option. The session emphasized careful counting, documentation and secure sealing of voted and unvoted ballot boxes.
An Albemarle County Department of Elections official led a training for ballot officers that reviewed step-by-step procedures to count, document and secure ballots during election day. The official said the Code of Virginia requires ‘‘we shall carefully count the ballots’’ and framed the ballot officer’s primary role as keeping close track of voted, unvoted, spoiled, provisional and returned absentee ballots.
The presentation outlined materials and set-up for the ballot table — two chairs, pens, a check-in slip collection bin, ballots to issue, the ballot tally sheet and, if space permits, a table behind the ballot table for envelope 4 and extra counted or uncounted ballots. The official advised that ballots typically arrive in DS300 ballot bins and are organized in…
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