as we peek in from our perch in the nose bleed press box, we see workers photographing the nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in maricopa county. using microscopic cameras to zoom in on the paper. it's a mystery what this is all about to us and to jeff ellington. what are they looking for? >> don't know. wish we knew. >> reporter: ellington would know if there was something wrong with the paper. he's the ceo of run beck election services. nearly every single 2020 printed ballot for maricopa county, arizona, was produced here at run beck, an air-tight, secured, 90,000 square foot facility where every ballot is bar coded, sorted, and assembled, and the specialty paper itself cut and measured to the nanometer. >> this is ballot paper. >> reporter: this has to be specially made? >> it's heavy, it's hard to ship. the stuff -- thousand pounds for each one of these rolls. we don't have paper made out of