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Counting officer Sue Bruce has just given a brief overview of the various steps John Dingwall will bear witness to overnight with approximate timings.
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The first ballot boxes will soon arrive from the polling stations.
At approximately 11.15pm, staff will start to open boxes from polling stations and this is the first count verification, Sue added.
John said: It s still the calm before the storm and it s early days the press and media, many of them old hands at this sort of thing know the fireworks come later once the results begin to tally up on the big screen.
With 32 council areas counting votes from over 5,000 polling stations, it s no longer all to play for. It s a waiting game.
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The Press Association report:
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