Delaware Code Title 15. Elections § 5611A. Counting procedure for ballot envelopes

(1) An election judge shall select the ballot envelopes in order of the election districts within the county.

(2) For each ballot envelope, the election judges shall ascertain whether a challenge has been made under § 5615A of this title.

(3) If no challenge has been made, the election judges shall do all of the following:

(4) Once mail votes have been recorded, an election judge shall deposit the voted ballots, rejected ballots, and any mail vote tally sheet that may have been used, in a carrier envelope for the election district with whose votes the mail votes are counted as follows:

(5) Once a carrier envelope is filled, it must be sealed by an election judge.  The election judge shall sign the election judge's name on each sealed carrier envelope, affirming that the election judge sealed the envelope and that the envelope contains ballots for the election district to which the envelope is assigned.  Each sealed and signed carrier envelope shall be placed in a secure location and held there until such time as it is destroyed or moved for further legal process.

(6) The results of the mail ballots shall not be extracted or reported before the polls have closed on the day of the election.