Chief Executive of Lancaster City Council Mark Davies makes the first speech in the Ashton Hall.
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00:00I am the Deputy Acting Attorney Officer for the constituency and the Attorney Officer for the City Council's University Ward by election.
00:12My Deputy Acting Attorney Officer will be in the room for the rest of my delegation in Cairns and the City Council by election.
00:21Debbie Jane will be sitting over here at the front.
00:25So the Cairns is a two stage process.
00:29The first stage commences at 10 o'clock and that's the verification.
00:35So the verification checks upon the ballot boxes from each station as they return,
00:41tallied for the number of ballot papers issued by the Presiding Officer
00:46and the number of postal votes received to go forward to the Cairns are all present in the multiple ballot boxes.
00:55We'll announce how many ballot boxes have been received back from the polling stations.
01:00We're required to start the actual count by 2am.
01:05If verification isn't quite finished at that point,
01:08at least 14 will start to count and the announcement will be made at that point in good form.
01:17The City Council's University Ward by election will be counting after the parliamentary election.
01:24Team 5 will have the ballot boxes for the University which are boxes 39 to 41.
01:32We'll let you know when verification is complete and a statement of verification will be made available to candidates and agents at that point.
01:42Just a few housekeeping issues for our venue.
01:46Request notes are available in a pop-up cafe on the ground floor of the Town Hall.
01:53Students, you can see around the building behind this pedestal, can assist you through the barrier to go down the central staircase of the Town Hall.
02:03The bottom of the stairs turn right and the cafe is through the little doors.
02:08Please do not use your mobile phone at any point whilst doing this count-through.
02:16If you can use your mobile phone, please step outside once you've landed or you can go to the cafe.
02:24We don't expect a fire alarm test at any point during this event.
02:29So if the alarm does sound, please make your way up the building by using the exit guided by our stewards.
02:38The interior of the building will be able to make sure you pass to the stewards if you don't pass at the exit.
02:46This helps keep count of the number of people in the building.