These feeds are of the Ballot Counting Room, where the ballots are tabulated, and the ballot processing rooms where early and provisional ballots are processed and prepared for tabulation. The staff in these rooms are Elections Department fulltime and intermittent employees and observers from different political parties.
The County is required by state statute to have a live video feed of the counting room. The County is providing feeds for ballot processing and warehouse and electronic adjudication in the interest of transparency.
"Political party representatives may observe at a central counting place and at each point where ballots are handled or transferred from one election official to another" and are encouraged to do so by the Elections Department (EPM p. 139).
To prevent the possibility of illegal manipulation of voted ballots, the presence of political party observers is requested as a best practice at any time voted ballots are being processed. Additionally, the two-person rule is extended to operations in the tabulation room. There must be at least two Elections Department employees present in the tabulation room at all times. In addition, the Elections Department requests that at least two political party observers be present in the tabulation room during ballot processing. For more information about Elections Center security, see the Elections Security Plan.