The party-political observers also do "tallying". Votes from more than one ballot box are combined into the result from one ward. If you want to know how people voted at a higher geographic resolution than per-ward, the only thing you can do is watch as the votes are tipped out of each ballot box and the initial count just to make sure there's the correct number of ballot papers is made, marking off on a "tally sheet" the votes cast for each party.
Another check on the correctness is these totals. If 26 Labour votes end up in a bundle of nominally 25, the total once all the bundles are made up will be one vote short. Hence a hypothetic malicious teller would have to also be making a like number of short bundles with 24 votes in them.
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Date: 2019-05-08 09:45 pm (UTC)The party-political observers also do "tallying". Votes from more than one ballot box are combined into the result from one ward. If you want to know how people voted at a higher geographic resolution than per-ward, the only thing you can do is watch as the votes are tipped out of each ballot box and the initial count just to make sure there's the correct number of ballot papers is made, marking off on a "tally sheet" the votes cast for each party.
Another check on the correctness is these totals. If 26 Labour votes end up in a bundle of nominally 25, the total once all the bundles are made up will be one vote short. Hence a hypothetic malicious teller would have to also be making a like number of short bundles with 24 votes in them.