How is the vote audited?
Throughout Election Day, election judges match the number of votes cast on the voting units against the total number of voters who entered the polling place to vote. Any discrepancy will be noted. Post-election auditing is included in the Canvass process. Prior to the Election, the local board identifies 10% of the precincts that will be audited. One hundred percent of the memory cards are re-run through the accumulation process and compared to the Election Night. The votes cast on each voting unit (public counter) are compared once again to the number of Voter Authority Cards signed by the voters who came to the polling place and cast their votes on the ballot. The individual totals tape from each unit will be matched to the memory cards for each unit for the precinct.
