The Fayette County Clerk’s office says they feel good about ballot security on Election Day.
The protection of ballots has been an issue in the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of votes were destroyed in Vancouver, Washington after at least one ballot box was intentionally set on fire.
In Lexington, most voting is done in person. Ballots at polling stations are stored directly in the voting machines, which are moved to a secure location on election night.
“The memory cards come out on election night, and we use those to upload results, but the actual paper ballots stay in the scanner boxes,” Deputy County Clerk Meredith Watson said.
Watson says they don’t expect security to be an issue for the remaining absentee ballots.
“I wouldn't say we're not concerned, but it's not a huge concern,” Watson said. “We feel very good about the security of our dropbox in front of our office and the post office handling the other absentee mail-in ballots.”
The office is also currently processing the absentee ballots this week. Watson says they’ve counted more than 10,000 as of Wednesday.
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