§ 15290 Manual Ballot Counting Procedures

• •Ballots counted by hand at a central spot must be moved as described in Sections 15201 and 15202.
• •A counting board, overseen by the elections official or an authorized deputy, does the counting.
• •Votes are tallied precinct‑by‑precinct, following the same method used when counting at the polling place.

After the election, all the paper ballots from several neighborhoods are taken to the county clerk’s office to be counted.

The clerk’s team moves the ballot boxes according to the transport rules in Sections 15201‑15202, then a counting board, led by the elections official or an authorized deputy, counts the votes for each neighborhood separately, using the same step‑by‑step process they would have used at each voting site.