Overview of events on Election Night,
March 7, 2007
- As soon as possible after the close of polls at 7pm on Tuesday,
March 7, election officials will close down the voting equipment and
print out a "totals" tape. Because of the programming of the
voting equipment for instant runoff voting, this totals tape will not
show vote totals for each candidate in each race as in past
years. Instead, the totals tape will simply show the number of
ballots cast.
- Election officials will then deliver the tabulator, which is the
top portion of the voting equipment and which contains the memory card
holding all voting data, to City Hall, where the Elections Director
will upload the data from the tabulators. At that point, 1st
choice totals for mayor and all other election results will be
announced publicly.
- Election officials will then return to their wards to tally
write-in votes and announce ward-level results, which will include 1st
choice totals for mayor and all other election results.
- If no candidate for mayor received 50% of 1st choices, the
Elections Director will then copy the set of all rankings from each
ward onto a floppy disk and from the floppy disk onto the computer with
the IRV tallying software.
- The IRV tally will be performed and round-by-round election
results will be printed out, projected on the wall of Contois
Auditorium and posted on the City's website along with a complete set
of data files and audit reports. That information will be
available here after 7pm on March 7, 2006.
If you have any questions about this process, please don't hesitate to
contact the Clerk-Treasurer's office at 802-865-7000 or visit the Burlington Votes website.