Casting and Tabulating Ballots; and

Definition

• producing reports of vote totals. The record incorporates system status and error messages generated during election processing, including a log of machine activ ities and routine and unusual intervention by authorized and unauthorized individuals. The aud it trail also documents such items as ballots delivered and collected, administrative procedures for system security, pre-election testing of voting systems, and maintenance performed on voting equipment.” Cal. Proc. §1803. 2. A record of BALLOT IMAGES of votes cast by voters. The Illinois provision is comprehensive and combines meanings 1 and 2: “‘Audit trail’ or ‘audit capacity’ means a continuous trail of evidence linking individual tran sactions related to the casting of a vote, the vote count and the summary record of vote totals, but which shall not allow for the identification of the voter. It shall permit verification of the accuracy of the count and detection and correction of problems and shall provide a record of each step taken in: defining and producing ballots and generating related software for specific elections; installing ballots and software; testing system readiness; casting a nd tabulating ballots; and producing images of votes cast and reports of vote totals. The record shall incorporate system status and error messages generated during election processi ng, including a log of machine activities and routine and unusual intervention by authorized a nd unauthorized individuals. Also part of an audit trail is the documentation of such items as ballots delivered and collected, administrative procedures for system security, pre-election testing of voting systems, and maintenance performed on voting equipment. All test plans, test results, documentation, and other records used to plan, execute, and record the results of the testing and verification, including all material prepared or used by independent testi ng authorities or other third parties, shall be made part of the public record and shall be fr eely available via the Internet and paper copy to anyone. ‘Audit trail’ or ‘audit capacity’ also m eans that the voting system is capable of producing and shall produce immediately after a ballot is cast a permanent paper record of each ballot cast that shall be available as an o fficial record for any recount, redundant count, or verification or retabulation of the vote count conducted with respect to any election in which the voting system is used.” 10 Ill. Comp. Stat. §5/24C-2. See also VVPAT. 3. “Recorded information that allows election officials to review the activities that occurred on the voting equipment to verify or reconstruc t the steps followed without compromising the ballot or voter secrecy.” 2005 VVSG GLOSSARY. See also AUDIT TRAIL FOR DIRECT- RECORDING EQUIPMENT.