Whats the difference between a voter verified ballot and other voter-verified paper trails?
When a printer is added to a DRE, the printout is sometimes called a “voter verified paper trail” (in California law, SB1438 and the standards set by the Secretary of State in 2004 it’s called a “paper record copy”). Others have called it a contemporaneous paper record (CPR). The legal status of the CPR is unclear. They used the Sequoia Veri-Vote system in Nevada in NOV 2004 but the paper was not used in tabulating or checking. It was there just in case. In these cases, the vote is electronic with a paper audit trail that may or may not be used. The system like OVC is proposing is a ballot marking device. The printout is the ballot, and represents the authentic vote. The act of voting with the OVC system involves the voter placing the ballot in the ballot box (witnessed by pollworkers). With the OVC ballot marking system, the vote is on the paper ballot while the electronic record provides the audit trail. To avoid confusion with other ballot systems, we refer to the ballot in the OVC
When a printer is added to a DRE, the printout is sometimes called a “voter verified paper trail” (in California law, SB1438 and the standards set by the Secretary of State in 2004 it’s called a “paper record copy”). Others have called it a contemporaneous paper record (CPR). The legal status of the CPR is unclear. They used the Sequoia Veri-Vote system in Nevada in NOV 2004 but the paper was not used in tabulating or checking. It was there just in case. In these cases, the vote is electronic with a paper audit trail that may or may not be used. The system like OVC is proposing is a ballot marking device. The printout is the ballot, and represents the authentic vote. The act of voting with the OVC system involves the voter placing the ballot in the ballot box (witnessed by pollworkers). With the OVC ballot marking system, the vote is on the paper ballot while the electronic record provides the audit trail.
