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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".26" citation="COMAR 33.10.01.26" title_num="33" subtitle_num="10" chapter_num="01" heading="Generating Election Results.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Procedures. The State Administrator shall develop and issue written procedures for:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Assembling memory devices and ballots returned from voting locations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Tabulating voted ballots that could not be tabulated by the precinct tabulator;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Tabulating and reporting write-in votes;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Manually entering results into the election management system;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Reviewing, inspecting, and tabulating early voting and election day ballots;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Reviewing, inspecting, and tabulating absentee and provisional ballots;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Producing countywide results and other data, including totals from early voting, polling place voting, and absentee and provisional voting;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Securing the premises where vote tabulation and aggregation are being conducted; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Defining who may be admitted to the premises while vote tabulation and aggregation is taking place.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Tabulating Write-In Votes (General Election.)</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In a general election, the results report produced by the precinct tabulator shall include the number of write-in votes cast in each contest.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The ballot images shall contain the names of the individuals for whom voters cast write-in votes and shall copy write-in candidates into the election management system.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>After all memory devices from the precinct tabulators have been loaded, the election management system shall produce vote cast records and ballot images that include all write-in votes.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>From the vote cast record and ballot images, the local board shall tally and record the write-in votes cast.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Write-in votes shall be reported as part of the official returns in accordance with State Administrator instructions.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>