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One Percent Manual Tally

One Percent Manual Tally: A post-election audit to verify election outcomes conducted publicly as a manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts…

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A post-election audit to verify election outcomes conducted publicly as a manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official.

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The “public process of manually tallying votes in 1 percent of the precincts, selected at random by the elections official, and in one precinc t for each race not included in the randomly selected precincts. This procedure is conduc ted during the official canvass to verify the accuracy of the automated count.” Cal. Elec. Code §336.5.

Source: Electronic Voting GlossaryType: external

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2018 Risk Limiting Audit Pilot Project Report
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Electronic Voting Glossary
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