Wellesley Media to air town election results on Tuesday night
Wellesley Media, on Comcast 8, Verizon 40, and WellesleyMedia.org, will present a short show on Tuesday, March 3 at 9pm to announce unofficial election results ahead of when the unofficial results make it to the town website later in the night. This announcement on Wellesley Media will be based on machine-tabulated numbers.
The campaigns station people at each precinct right at 8pm, when the polls close, and copy down the results from the tabulator tape when it prints at each precinct. Another 40%-plus of ballots sent by mail, etc., are pre-processed at Town Hall and will be posted somewhere around 8:30pm.
The Town Clerk typically posts unofficial results sometime after 9pm on election day, with write-in, hand counted, and other such ballots reviewed before official results are published.