It’s been a couple days since the election. I got word from my contact at City Hall that the count is still ongoing this morning. They have completed the count for Mayor and are still working on votes for council, public school, and separate school. He didn’t know if they would complete the count during the morning shift (8:30-12:30 pm) or if they would continue into the afternoon shift (which goes from 1-5pm). He doesn’t expect they’ll be counting into the evening so we should find out the results today.
It’s debatable if the slow and expensive hand count makes our elections more secure, but I would certainly entertain a hybrid approach where the ballots are counted on voting day and then the government can feel free to do a hand count afterward if they don’t trust the numbers. Just my two cents.
Here are the results as they appear now. They will be updated when the counting is done.