But the 30 or so staff may simply not have the capacity to deal with the numbers involved by the time ballot papers are due to be dispatched.
In Orlando, the operation was slowed by quirky write-ins, smudges left by the rubber rollers from the first time ballots were counted and ballot cards the machine had shredded or folded.
It's the first time ballot papers are being scanned at a federal level and the scale of ballot papers that need to be entered is much greater than at past elections.
Given form around the time ballots were being cast, it's a shame not to see New England's Lee Nguyen getting a chance in midfield, or the Chicago Fire's exciting young rookie Harry Shipp perhaps getting a commissioner's pick.
C. A Rundell, of Cronus, informed me during an interview in his office in Dallas last fall that because of the chad problem, and also because of wear and tear on the ballots, vote totals may not change the first time ballots are run through the card reader, and probably won't the second time, but the third or fourth time they may change, "and then you've lost your audit trail".
The Alliance worked with Carbon Washington for many months to try to bridge the divide over the carbon pricing system's design, but that effort fell short by the time ballot initiative deadlines arrived.
But there remains the possibility that the debate over Emanuel's residential status won't be resolved by the time ballots are printed.
But he needs money to proceed with the referendum, because he knows he'll have to hire personnel and buy TV and radio advertising time, ballots, and all the other stuff one requires to put on a country-wide vote.
At an Aug. 9 news conference alongside Mrs. Clinton, Foreign Minister Assunção Afonso dos Anjos said Angola needed more time for balloting.
The last time we balloted this measure was in November, and 89 percent said the federal government should extend those tax breaks," Chapman said.
