Reply #83: MN's paper trail. What happens after the polls close.

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The inkfed paper ballots are not destroyed afterwards. We have to take them out of the ballot machine and seal them in envelopes, several of us sign over the flap to indicate non-tampering, then the chair takes them to the secretary of state.

The tape the the tabulating machine spits out is likewise signed by several of us and goes with it.

While we're doing this, we verify that the number of ballots tallies with the number of registrations plus preregistered voters.

Also while this is going on, any member of the public can watch. I'm particularly proud that the two poll watchers/challengers told us we were doing a good job.

Our chair posted a copy of the tape so that the observers could get the results, too.

I did say that my precinct would have no funny business going on and I was right.