Rochelle
THE RETURNING OFFICER OF ALL POLLING STATIONS USES THE STATEMENT OF POLLS TO TABULATE THE RESULTS, THEN THE CHIEF ELECTION OFFICER PUT THAT INFORMATION ON A SPREADSHEET TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE CHAIRMAN, FOR HER TO MAKE THE FINAL DECLARATION AS TO WHO IS THE WINNER, OK. I CAN'T EXPLAIN THIS MORE SIMPLE. In other words you have to put the jackass infront of the cart.
Those officers are to follow a protocol to ensure the contest is fair. They do not do so willy-nilly. Elections are deemed fair when the process is transparent hence the necessity for so many rules.
It is a contest of merit for one party or another to control the lives of the state and its assets and beyond even the picking of a name from a hat, it is to be adjudicated transparent and fair. That is what is involved here in the right ordering the cart and the horse.
It is not fair to hide any of the vote counting process where presiding officials can game the system at their discretion. Given the PNC historical penchant to cheat, they have to earn trust.