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SPOKANE, Wash. - The thing about technology is that the more things change, the more things stay the same. At the Spokane County Elections Office tonight, things are likely to feel pretty familiar because of a technical glitch.
Paul Brandt, Director of Election Communications for Spokane County sent out a notice Tuesday morning - Election Day - that a mail sorting unit had a problem. Technicians hoped to have the sorting unit up and running by afternoon, all while elections workers did things the old fashioned way: they counted ballots by hand.
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The mail sorting unit could have made tonight's work of counting Primary Election ballots child's play. The Elections office could have had all the ballots counted rather quickly, allowing Brandt to send out the results to multiple media outlets around 8 p.m. But technology happened.
Brandt said his office would issue a first release, after counting 50,000 to 60,000 ballots, shortly after 8 p.m. But, he said, he couldn't estimate when the second release would come or how many ballots would have to be counted.
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