EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Scott Hunsaker
Organization : | Hart Intercivic
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.8.4.1
Page no. : | 41
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Comment : | 56 Comment: "…if spoiled, the corresponding electronic record be marked as spoiled and preserved." Recommended change: recommend changing this requirement to "…create an audit trail for spoiled ballots." Rationale: This means that we would have to store the contents of the spoiled (rejected) ballot, rather than just make an audit entry of the spoil event as we currently are doing. This is burdensome and impact the maximum size of an election that can be conducted due to storage limitations Because they are not the official record or voters choice, an audit record is sufficient.