§ 15207 Ballot Counting Board Rules

• •The election official must split ballot counters into separate counting boards.
• •Each counting board is treated as a precinct board.
• •All the rules that apply to precinct boards also apply to these counting boards when ballots are counted at the polling place.

At a town hall election, ten volunteers are hired to count the paper ballots. The elections official divides them into two groups of five, calling each group a counting board.

Each group now works like its own precinct board, so they must obey all the same rules that a normal precinct board would, such as keeping the ballots safe and following the counting procedures.