TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
After making sure
thousands of ballots have the right signature and were cast at the right
polling location, the Pima County Recorder's Office expects to beat that
12 p.m. deadline to have them all done.
Then again, F. Ann Rodriguez says it's only a goal. Everything has be counted and she'd
rather be right than early.
Then it's in the hands of
the elections department.
"We'll give
everything over to the department of elections and then they have their process
of marrying up the ones we said, okay, for this voter count this ballot that's
in a special envelope and for this voter, you will not count it for these
reasons," she said.
"The end is in
sight," said Brad Nelson.
Elections will process the
validated ballots tomorrow. From there they say the next goal is to count them
all by the end of Sunday or early Monday.
In some cases the ballots
might not be readable by machine and workers will duplicate those ballots
under the watchful eye of monitors with each political party.
"We've had various
beauty products like eyebrow pencils marking ballots, glitter pens, chalk,
crayon, you name it, if you can write with it I think it's marked our ballots
at some point in time," he said.
The recorder says about 30 people
attempted to vote twice in the election and their information will be turned
over to the Pima County attorney.
To check on the status of your ballot click here: http://www.recorder.pima.gov/
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Source: Pima County Communications Office
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