Take a behind-the-scenes look at a vote recount

Staff with the City of Waterloo are getting ready to recount votes for two municipal election races. One for the Waterloo Catholic District School Board and the other one for the Waterloo seat for Regional Council. So what kind of work goes into recounting votes for two municipal election races? We've been setting up the recount station all week. It does take a fair amount of work. We want to make sure that we have adequate spacing for staff, but also candidates and scrutineers that can attend and observe the recount with us. We have the ballot boxes, the tabulators. We're going to open up the ballot boxes and remove the ballots, so we have to have a temporary ballot box. For those to be stored in, and then we'll feed them one by one throughout the day. So it has been a week-long process to get everything set up and to make sure that the tabulators are functioning properly and the memory cards. And then on Monday, we expect it to be six to eight hours of the recount, but we will be here until it's finished. At the conclusion, we're shutting down the polls just like we would on election day, and we're producing results tapes. The only difference is... When we load the memory cards from the machines to display the results, we're only displaying the results for those four candidates. We will have unofficial results for the regional council race. The recount for the school board, there's three municipalities, and the Township of Woolwich recount is not until Tuesday. So it won't be until Tuesday that we can announce the cumulative results of the school board race. And if it remains a tie vote, then we have a public... We have a public meeting for those candidates at 4.30 on Tuesday to draw their name from a box, from a lot.