Guam - While they prepare for Monday's handcount of ballots from the 2010 general election, the Guam Election Commission continues to complete other mandates of the election reform law. The GEC spent the week conducting an audit of the ballot production and provisional ballots earlier and today started the handcount of off-island absentee ballots received from November 3 to November 15, 2010.

GEC executive director Maria Pangelinan told KUAM News, "It's going fast and one of the things is we're gearing up for the long haul 2323 here we're counting only 30+ ballots and so when we start on Monday it will be the whole precincts so most of them will be over a thousand ballots times three each."

GEC counted absentee ballots for the local partisan, non-partisan and federal races. She adds Monday's handcount of five different precincts will consist of two teams and start at 9:30am at the GEC Conference Room in Hagatna.