Ohio Code 3506.18 – Electronic voting machine – verified paper audit trail as official ballot in recount
(A) For any recount of an election in which ballots are cast using a direct recording electronic voting machine with a voter verified paper audit trail, the voter verified paper audit trail shall serve as the official ballot to be recounted.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3506.18
- Ballot: means the official election presentation of offices and candidates, including write-in candidates, and of questions and issues, and the means by which votes are recorded. See Ohio Code 3506.01
- Direct recording electronic voting machine: means a voting machine that records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be actuated by the voter, that processes the data by means of a computer program, and that records voting data and ballot images in internal or external memory components. See Ohio Code 3506.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Voter verified paper audit trail: means a physical paper printout on which the voter's ballot choices, as registered by a direct recording electronic voting machine, are recorded. See Ohio Code 3506.01
(B) Voter verified paper audit trails shall be preserved in the same manner and for the same time period as paper ballots are preserved under section 3505.31 of the Revised Code.
(C) A voter verified paper audit trail shall be treated as are other ballots for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and shall be retained in accordance with the county records retention schedule established under section 149.38 of the Revised Code after the relevant time period prescribed for its preservation in section 3505.31 of the Revised Code, or as ordered by the secretary of state or a court of competent jurisdiction.
(D) If a voter verified paper audit trail is made available to the public, any information on that voter verified paper audit trail that identifies the particular direct recording electronic voting machine that produced it shall be redacted.