A couple other things I noticed about that meeting.
1) There is a well set agenda, which it appears all 5 members of the canvassing board have a copy of before the meeting (those binders everyone is flipping through) and they know what is coming up next. This is key to move through any number of topics quickly, especially when there's 1600+ agenda items!
2) I'm assuming here, from what I can see, that the person recording the minutes of the meeting (and the results of all of the votes by the 5 members) is not Mark Ritchie or anyone else on the canvassing board. It's probably a staffer off screen that we can't see and who doesn't even look at the ballots. But the key is, the person taking the minutes is NOT running the meeting.
Both these things help them move through 1600+ ballots quickly. The board members know what what the agenda is before the meeting starts and none of them have to worry about recording the minutes for later review.
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1) There is a well set agenda, which it appears all 5 members of the canvassing board have a copy of before the meeting (those binders everyone is flipping through) and they know what is coming up next. This is key to move through any number of topics quickly, especially when there's 1600+ agenda items!
2) I'm assuming here, from what I can see, that the person recording the minutes of the meeting (and the results of all of the votes by the 5 members) is not Mark Ritchie or anyone else on the canvassing board. It's probably a staffer off screen that we can't see and who doesn't even look at the ballots. But the key is, the person taking the minutes is NOT running the meeting.
Both these things help them move through 1600+ ballots quickly. The board members know what what the agenda is before the meeting starts and none of them have to worry about recording the minutes for later review.