EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/26/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Audit Trail
Definition : |
Comment : | In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following. In each case, I am quoting your original and then offering an alternative definition. Audit Trail: Recorded information that allows election officials to view the steps that occurred on the equipment included in an election to verify or reconstruct the steps followed without compromising the ballot or voter secrecy. Audit Trail: All records created for the purpose of supporting the audit process. Generally, the audit trail will consist of event logs and redundant records of the primary data being processed, and this information may be manually or automatically recorded. The voter privacy and ballot secrecy requirements of the election context limit what can be stored in the audit trail. See also event log, redundancy, chain of custody.