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7:04	Birmingham Weekly - It's alive!

7:07	Birmingham Weekly - It might take a while for results to come in. After the regular election, all results weren't done until after 10:30. The city is conducting its own election, as opposed to the county running it for them.

7:08

Birmingham Weekly - Usually the voting machines have cell modems that send the results to a central computer. Later, data cards from the machines are fed into the central computer and the results are double-checked. When the city conducted the council election this year, they skipped the first step.

7:09	Birmingham Weekly - As a result, real returns did not start pouring in until 8:30.

7:12	[Comment From alan b] just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.

7:13	[Comment From Larry] Do the campaigns have box report info you can share before official results start to arrive?

7:14	Birmingham Weekly - All the results tonight will be unofficial. The results generally referred to as "official" are certified sometimes days after the election.

7:15	Birmingham Weekly - The "official" results are derived from these same numbers, though.

7:16	[Comment From Sherman] This makes me a little nervous. I don't live in the actual city, but everything they do effects us in the "burbs"

7:16	Birmingham Weekly - Sherman, I wish more people thought the way you do.

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