How DUCSU votes are being counted

Votes are being counted by machine in the DUCSU election, which ended without any major incidents. Polls opened at 8am and closed at 4pm, but it took another 45 minutes for the vote counting process to start. All eight polling centres began counting votes after 5pm. Students at the university cast their votes on six-page Optical Mark Recognition sheets. The ballots are being counted using 14 ballot counting machines. Some of them can scan 5,000 pages in an hour, while others can scan up to 8,000. At the University Laboratory School and College polling centre, ballot boxes were opened at 5:15pm. The ballots were then organised for feeding into the machine. However, a technical glitch caused a 45-minute delay in...