California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 7 - Secretary of State › Chapter 2 - Risk Limiting Audits › Section 20111 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Chapter, the following terms have the
				  following meanings:
(a) "Ballot" shall
				have the meaning set forth in Elections Code section
				15366(a).
				A validly cast ballot is any ballot that is eligible to be counted in the
				canvass of an election, as specified in Division 15, Chapters 2 through 4 of
				the Elections Code.
(b) "Ballot
				card" means a card upon which is printed, or identified by reference to the
				ballot, the names of candidates for nomination or election to one or more
				offices or the ballot titles of one or more measures. A ballot may be comprised
				of multiple ballot cards.
(c)
				"Ballot-level comparison audit" shall have the meaning set forth in Elections
				Code section
				15366(b).
				In preforming this type of risk-limiting audit, the elections official shall
				export a cast vote record from the voting system for every cast ballot card and
				cast voter verified paper audit trail containing the contest(s) under audit.
				The cast number of cast vote records must be exported in a way that enables the
				elections official to determine whether the number of cast vote records matches
				the number of ballot cards physically accounted for in the ballot manifest and
				to find particular physical ballot card or voter-verified paper audit trail
				associated with each cast vote record.
(d) "Ballot manifest" means a detailed
				description of how the ballot cards are stored and organized, listing at
				minimum the unique physical location of each and every ballot card cast in the
				election in such a way that individual ballot cards or batches of ballot cards
				can be found, retrieved, and examined manually.
(e) "Ballot polling audit" shall have the
				meaning set forth in Elections Code section
				15366(c).
				In examining voter markings, the audit board shall perform a hand-to-eye, human
				interpretation of voter markings but shall not compare those interpretations to
				the corresponding cast vote records.
(f) "Batch comparison audit" means a type of
				risk-limiting audit in which the audit board examines voter markings on ballot
				cards, in randomly selected batches of ballot cards. This type of risk-limiting
				audit involves the following steps:
(1) The
				elections official divides the ballot cards cast in the contests under audit
				into physically identifiable batches, such as the ballot cards cast in
				different precincts or vote centers.
(2) The elections official exports vote
				subtotals from the voting system for each such physically identifiable batch of
				cast ballot cards.
(3) The
				elections official verifies that the number of ballot cards according to these
				subtotals does not exceed the number of ballot cards physically accounted for
				in the ballot manifest.
(4) The
				elections official compares some or all of those batch-level subtotals to
				subtotals derived by hand-to-eye, human interpretation of voter markings from
				the corresponding ballot cards marked by the voter verified paper audit trail,
				as defined by Elections Code section
				19271.