For example, he said, there weren’t enough trained staff with appropriate schedules to run tabulation machines for ballots mailed in before Election Day in 2018. He also said more tabulation machines have been ordered in advance of 2020 voting. He said staff should be trained and scheduled so tabulating could take place 18 hours a day. Failing to do so in 2018, he said, meant the office was overwhelmed with mail ballots by the time voting was over.