EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Bayer
Organization : | Institute for Clean Elections
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Bayer --V and VI V-Each precinct shall conduct mandatory hand counts of 5 percent of the voter-verified paper records and post the results at the precinct along with the results produced by the electronic machines. Both sets of results will be forwarded to the county tabulation center and copies will be given to each political party and candidate which has participated in the election. All these records and copies will carry the official stamp of the precinct and the signatures of the election officials at that precinct. VI-With respect to votes cast other than at the precinct on the date of the election or votes cast by provisional ballots on the date of the election which are certified and counted by the county on or after the date of the election, including votes cast by absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters, the county board of elections shall count by hand the applicable voter-verified paper records and compare its count with the machine tally of those votes. Again any difference greater than .3 percent would trigger a recount of the paper ballots and this count of the paper ballots would be the one which prevails.