How US mail-in ballots are secured and counted

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAt an election center in Davis County, Utah, mail-in ballots are watched by cameras, sealed with zip ties, and observed by the public from three viewing areas.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWait, people can just stand there and watch?

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThey can. BBC Verify visited, and the rules there say two or more election workers must handle returned ballots.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe building also has an alarm system.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo a ballot is never alone with one person. That's more supervision than my last group project got.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Postal Service, which moves about three hundred seventy million pieces of mail six days a week, advises voters to mail ballots at least a week before the deadline.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA postmark can land a day after drop-off.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA day late. The envelope takes a night off before it votes.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorUtah voters can also add the last four digits of an ID number to the envelope under a new state law.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThree viewing areas, an alarm, and two chaperones. My ballot has a better social life than me.