Thread by @jeremyduda

There’s 20 tables where 3-person teams are examining ballots. Each table has a turntable with 2 stands where they put the ballots. Each ballot spends 11-15 seconds on the stand as counters examine them and mark down their findings. #azauditpool

One of the tables has a bracket with a camera they’re using to take images of both sides of the ballots, which appear on a laptop screen. Every counting table had a laptop, but it looks like only one is being used to examine images of the ballots. #azauditpool

At 6 other tables, workers take photos of one side of the ballots with cameras mounted on brackets, and the images go to a laptop. Then another person shines a UV light on it. Then the ballot goes into the cardboard box it was originally stored in. #azauditpool

The workers aren’t taking any notes after they inspect the ballots with UV lights. They have some kind of tally sheet next to them, but I haven’t seen them mark anything on them. #azauditpool

I count 44 pallets of ballots from @MaricopaVote behind chain link fences, five of which have at least one box removed. #azauditpool

A worker brought a new box out from the pallets a few minutes ago. Its first stop was one of the UV light tables. Another box that came out before that went straight to one of the counting tables. #azauditpool

Yesterday, @BennettArizona estimated that they’d counted nearly 100k ballots. Today the @ArizonaAudit Twitter feed said it was 50k. There are nearly 2.1m ballots to count by May 14,

It took about 8 minutes for a table to start counting ballots after they’d been unpacked and stacked once the new box arrived #azauditpool

The amount of time each ballot spends on the turntable varies. I’ve seen as short as 7 seconds and as long as 16, not counting times when they have to stop to re-inspect something. #azauditpool

.@BennettArizona and other bigwigs are huddled together at one of the counting tables examining a ballot #azauditpool

Bennett is still at the table, though Doug Logan left. Bennett is looking at papers next to a stack of ballots. Someone is taking photos. Someone else brought over a cardboard box, not one of the boxes the ballots are stored in. #azauditpool

Feels like things have slowed down a little on the floor, but that might just be because it’s around lunchtime #azauditpool

Bennett waked away with the box, which appears to be an Amazon box, and brought it over to the table where they check in boxes of ballots that have been counted. #azauditpool

The Amazon box has a pink tally sheet from one of the red tables where they’re counting ballots. After Bennett dropped it off at the check-in table, they put it in the fenced area where the finished boxes go, but segregated in the corner, away from the other boxes. #azauditpool

And now my watch has ended. Thanks for following, everyone. And make sure to follow @mpolletta for the afternoon shift later today.

I counted 41 completed boxes, plus the Amazon boxes that Bennett brought back to the fenced off area for counted ballots on the floor of the coliseum.

As we left, we noticed that they put up chain link fencing around the coliseum during our three-hour shift. There’s a carnival setting up at the fairgrounds as well.