EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Bayer
Organization : | Institute for Clean Elections
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Bayer -- VII VII- Final Vote Tabulation at the County Level and Report of the Election Results: (1) Each county may tabulate the vote electronically but by precinct by precinct, so that the vote result at each precinct can be identified in the county report and distributed immediately to the political parties and candidates in the elections. This will allow them to compare the summated vote, precinct by precinct, and to verify that the county vote totals correspond to those gathered before at each precinct level. (2) Once election officials and parties and candidates agree that no discrepancies exist, then they will sign a document which declares the same agreement. At that point, and only at that point, are the results of that county legally official. At that point they can be announced to the general population and reported to the Secretary of state.