• A ballot style is the unique combination of contests and candidates that will appear on a voter's ballot, depending on what jurisdictions they live in within the county.

• This is called a BP-34 report. 
• They attach that report to that bundle. 
• The ballots are still in both their secrecy and affirmation envelopes at this time. 

• Affirmation envelopes are placed on a spindle to ensure that no secrecy envelope containing a ballot remains in the affirmation envelope. This is another physical double-check of the envelopes and ballots. 
• The empty affirmation envelopes are stored daily and sealed for records retention. 
• Envelopes with return postage and changes to voter mailing addresses are stored separately for processing. 

Working in teams of two using the report generated in Step 7, election judges confirm the number of secrecy envelopes matches the number on the reconciliation report and confirms that there is only one voted ballot and that it is the correct style and for the current election. 

• Mis-sorted or voided ballots are tracked on the accompanying report.  
• Ballots are sealed and securely stored under video surveillance for vote counting. 

• When the Elections Office reports the number of ballots accepted, it is not from a manual count, but a report generated by the Secretary of State's voter database, based on the unique barcodes scanned into the system.

• In federal elections, a post-election audit is completed where the Secretary of State’s office randomly selects precincts and races for a hand recount to ensure that election tabulators functioned correctly.