Allen County's slow election count explained
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — At their Friday meeting, Allen County Commissioners received a step-by-step account of what slowed the vote count in this month’s primary election, the first to use vote centers in Allen County.
Almost each of the 53 centers had 10 machines. Each machine had its own tally card. Each card was brought by a pair of Republican and Democratic judges to the Rousseau Center to be machine counted, which was routine and supposed to go quickly.
“We started noticing, hmmm, this is taking a little while. It was like two minutes a card,” explained Amy Scrogham, Director of Allen County Elections.
“They started getting a little backed up.”
While the vote centers seemed popular and allowed voters to go to any location instead of their home precinct, each machine had to hold the ballots for every precinct.
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