There are security protocols, and I can share with the committee more written elements about that.
Deputy returning officers have the obligation to safeguard the ballot boxes that they take out of the polling places after polling day. Returning officers in urban settings may request that those ballot boxes be brought back to the returning office, where they are secured, typically within a locked room within the locked office or within a locked cabinet within the locked office. In many rural and remote areas, that is, of course, not possible. In those cases, the deputy returning officer has the obligation to safeguard the box. The box is sealed, and the seals are signed by the poll worker and by the witnesses at the count—