Olmsted County describes how returned absentee ballots are secured and verified
Olmsted County Elections detailed procedures for handling returned ballots: at least two staff handle ballots on receipt, the absentee ballot board (staff and election judges) examines each ballot for one-per-voter, signatures and tampering, and accepted ballots are entered into the statewide voter registration system with daily reconciliation.
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Turner described multiple chain-of-custody and verification steps designed to protect ballot integrity. "Once ballots are received, they're always handled by at least 2 staff members of the elections team and stored securely each day," he said, and he described the absentee ballot board's role in examining and verifying ballots.
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