Ark. Code Ann. § 7-5-529: Tabulation of returns

(a) The county board of election commissioners shall compile countywide totals from the activation pack or device used to collect votes from each voting machine.

(b) Prior to certification of the official election results, the county board of election commissioners shall manually compile countywide totals from the polling location's certified return records and verify that they match the electronically derived totals from the activation pack or device used to collect votes from each machine.