Counting ballots - 11/6/20

Ballot numbers keep rolling in for georgia and pennsylvania.

However, processing every ballot can be bit time consuming in order to report those accurate numbers.

Wcbi's stephanie poole speaks with local election commissioners about what goes in to review.

Since election day, election workers have worked around the clock to get ballot numbers in.

For clay county, hubert caston says the board received 2,146 absentee ballots and 179 affidavits this year.

" to some areas, that's not a-lot but it's a-lot to us."

Caston says after 3 days, they were still counting.

"we had to scan them all that night.

We were here till about 3oclock in the morning getting those scanned because we don't have enough equipment to handle this many ballots normally."

On a national scale for states like georgia, pennsylvania and arizona, numbers for absentee and mail-in ballots are nearing the hundred- thousands...turnin g the wait for election results into a longer stretch.

Election commissioner linda ivy says it's a 3- step process.

"it's a long process, because we want them to check in three times with the application in the ballot with he names and everything.

Then it goes to the next process opening the envelope, then the next process is stacking by district.

" keeping up with the work load has been difficult during a pandemic.

"covid-19 really put a-lot of extra work on us because we wanted to keep all our voters safe and we wanted to keep all our workers safe."

That's why caston and ivy are asking those in larger states getting the job done.

"it's tough.

I feel for them, some of them have been working around the clock trying to get it done."

Butt sots "every vote counts and we want to make sure people are accounted for."

Reporting in clay county, stephanie poole, wcbi news.