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To: Matt Brown who wrote (72393)	11/27/2000 10:45:25 PM
From: Jim Bishop	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 150070

All votes hand-counted here. :-) hamiltonspectator.com Caroline Mallan Torstar News Service The Canadian federal election ballot count could never be accused of being a high-tech affair. Elections Canada spokesperson Hal Doran says the 20 million potential ballots are counted the old-fashioned way -- by hand. No computers, no tabulators, no gizmos, no punch cards -- just a mark beside the name of the candidate you want to vote for and a manual count by the local election officials presiding in each poll. Doran said while most people mark their ballots with an X, any obvious mark beside one candidate's name counts as a fair ballot. "Some people use the X, some people prefer a check mark, some people fill in the entire circle next to the candidate's name,'' Doran said of voting techniques. The ballot lists the name and party affiliation of each candidate. The results from each poll, which encompasses approximately 350 voters, are then telephoned to the local returning officer. The only hint of technology comes when the local returning officer forwards the riding's results via computer software to Elections Canada in Ottawa. Elections Canada posts the results on its Web site, www.elections.ca. But Doran said the non-partisan federal agency in charge of running Canada's electoral process usually doesn't release official results until two hours after the polls close. Representatives of the media are stationed independently in each returning office in Canada. They forward unofficial results as they arrive to member news services, which in turn declare winners and losers -- usually hours earlier than Elections Canada.