Ballot accounting

The practice of tallying the number of voted, spoiled, damaged, provisional, emergency, unused and any other ballots and making sure that tally equals the number of ballots received.

Source: Counting Votes 2012: A State by State Look at Voting Technology Preparedness, Verified Voting Foundation, the Rutgers Law School Newark Constitutional Litigation Clinic, and Common Cause, https://countingvotes.org/sites/default/files/CountingVotes2012_Final_August2012.pdf