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Canvass confirms totals after re-run; staff plans hands-on training after a missed scanned ballot
Summary
During a brief canvass session, election staff reported re-running ballots through tabulators produced matching totals but noted one ballot had not been included in the recount; staff said they will return to hands-on training with the equipment to reduce future errors.
Staff reported that canvassers "ran all the ballots through the machine again. It's what we expected. So now all of our numbers match," and asked officials to re-sign the recount paperwork.
The meeting transcript does not identify individual speakers by name; quotations and attributions below use the functional role used in the record. During the canvass report, a staff member said one Republican ballot had not been reprocessed during the recount while the corresponding Democratic ballot was correct. The staff member described possible causes as either human error or a machine issue and said the team plans to resume hands-on training with the tabulation equipment to reduce the chance of recurrence.
On the technical question, staff described two behaviors observed in different tabulator versions: one machine shows an interstitial message that disappears quickly, and another requires a password and keeps the message on screen longer. That difference, the staff member said, can affect whether workers believe a ballot has been scanned and whether it must be rescanned. "If it's already been scanned they should just drop it into the back. If it hasn't been scanned then it does need to be rescanned," the staff member said.
Participants also discussed a delay someone had observed on the Secretary of State's reporting web page for another county. A committee member noted seeing a county late to publish results and staff described the statewide process: local users must click boxes to mark reporting "complete" and then proceed to a separate screen to mark the election "complete," and missing that final step can make reporting appear delayed even when local uploads exist.
No new formal action was required to accept the recount in this session: staff indicated the mechanical steps had been completed and the only remaining task was signature of paperwork by officials. The group complimented election workers for their work; one participant said the post-audit process took "maybe an hour." The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn; members voted to adjourn and the chair closed the session, which lasted about seven minutes.
Next steps: staff said they will return to hands-on training with tabulation equipment; no additional formal votes were recorded in the transcript.
