DRS delivers Scottish STV by-election results in record time

Following the success of the highly complex 2007 STV Scottish Local Government elections, Argyll and Bute Council were quick to re-establish their partnership with DRS.

With an electorate of just under six thousand, the Helensburgh and Lomond South Ward postal and normal ballot papers were electronically counted using two DRS PhotoScribe® scanners. With a 37.4 per cent turnout, the papers were registered, scanned, verified and adjudicated where necessary by the Returning Officer and his staff, and the results were delivered just 60 minutes after scanning commenced.  If counted manually it could have taken around 30 people anything between three and four hours to process this complex count.