Television's biggest night fast approaches as Ernst & Young LLP tabulates the votes for the 67th Emmy® Awards to reveal who will go home with the gold

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Sep 15, 2015, 09:00 ET

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The ballots are in and the world is eagerly awaiting the results of the 67^th Emmy Awards as Ernst & Young LLP oversees the voting and tabulation process for television's biggest night and takes safeguards to protect the integrity and security of the identity of the winners.

The Awards will be telecast live on FOX on Sunday, September 20, 2015, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Ernst & Young LLP, a leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, has been overseeing the balloting process for the Emmy Awards for 27 years.

Ernst & Young LLP worked closely with the Television Academy to oversee the process for the Emmy Awards' transition to online voting, which was used this year to determine both nominees and winners.

Andy Sale, Ernst & Young LLP lead partner serving the Television Academy says:

"The security and accuracy of the voting process is paramount to everything we do. As new voting technologies are introduced, it becomes critical to make sure every possible safeguard is in place to ensure the results adhere to the strict standards we have been enforcing on behalf of the Television Academy for more than a quarter century."

Ernst & Young LLP implements numerous precautions to help ensure accuracy and safeguard results until they are announced onstage, including multiple sets of sealed envelopes transported to the ceremony in separate cars, triple-checking all results, keeping control of each envelope until it is handed to the presenter, hand-sealing every envelope and internally printing the winners' envelopes so the results never leave the organization's Los Angeles office. In the 27 years Ernst & Young LLP has been handling the Emmy Awards, there has not been a security breach in the balloting process.

And once again, the envelopes containing the names of the winners will be escorted down the red carpet in a briefcase handcuffed to a senior Ernst & Young LLP representative on their way to be announced to millions of television fans around the world.

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