Draft Audit Directive

Friday, 12 September 2008 00:00

CASE Ohio Reports

By Ohio Joint Audit Working Group (working with CASE Ohio)

This proposed Directive for Ohio Post-Election Audits uses the March Directive 2008-39 as a baseline to provide additional and substitute provisions that we recommend for Secretary Brunner’s planned postelection audit Directive.

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The Joint Audit Working Group (which wrote the Ohio Audit White Paper) was supplemented by other members of the OH-SOS VRI Advisory Council workgroup on voting technology and audits to prepare this submission. Drafters included some national experts on post-election audits. All individuals and the Workgroup itself offer to be available to provide additional assistance on audit policy and practices for the November election. Questions can be directed to Ron Olson (216-235-9991, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who will contact other group members.

This draft Directive seeks to achieve two primary audit objectives, those that we think should be paramount for Ohio voters, for BOE officials, and for the OH-SOS: 1) verifying that vote recording, tabulation, and election result processes are working at a very high level of ccuracy, and thus are correctly reporting the voters’ selection of the winning candidate or issue; and 2) providing a check on election process elements, for identifying areas of strong success and needed administrative improvements.

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