The Star-Gazette has some more details on the counting procedure.
The Democratic and Republican election commissioners from each county will ride together to each voting machine in every district in their county.
Each campaign shall be allowed two operatives to accompany the commissioners.
The commissioners and the campaign operatives shall open each machine and allow all present to read and record the results.
Every board of elections shall provide each operative with a copy of the congressional race results from each voting district to compare in the field with the actual machine counter being observed.
The process shall not start until all operatives from each campaign are present.
Each operative shall have a full opportunity to look at each counter number on each machine.
In addition, all paper ballots — including absentee, military, emergency ballots and affidavits — will be counted in each election district starting Nov. 17. Again, operatives from each campaign will be allowed to observe the process.
Each ballot will be examined one at a time on a table large enough to accommodate the campaign operatives and board of election staffs, Pulos said.
If either side objects to any ballots counted during the process, those ballots will be set aside for review by a judge.
Comments
Sounds like an exciting day trip for the commissioners. Remind me never to attempt to become an election official.
They're supposed to recanvass after every election. I would guess they do it in person, but I'm not sure. I do know that someone inspects those machines the second time.
My great-uncle use to do this with his political counterpart. They did every election district polling place in the county. It took days. Being in grade school back them, I often got to tag along. Today they do a printing of the back of the voting machine which shows the results for that machine, which is delivered to the board of elections office.