Video: The Election Process After the Polls Close

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – When the polls close at 7, the work isn’t over.

Election workers usually end up working until midnight, closing voting machines, collecting items at precincts, and counting absentee ballots.

When polls close and machines are put up, everything is taken to election central, the Oktibbeha County Circuit Court Complex.

Information books from each precinct are examined, and, of course, the votes are counted.

“This is where we upload the cards, the memory cards, into the machine to count those to upload the votes, and we also scan those absentee ballots. Once that is done, everything will be returned to the ballot bag and it will be resealed,” says Oktibbeha County Interim Circuit Clerk, Angie McGinnis.

605 absentee votes have been cast.

Once four precincts are in, totals will be announced to the public in the courtroom.

Affidavits will be counted Wednesday morning.