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Name :   Paul Walmsley
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Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Section :  6.8.6
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Comment :  [ Comment 4 of 4 ]

A random sample of the VVPAT records should be hand-interpreted and
tested against the cast vote records during the election to verify the
accuracy of the CVRs and the VVPAT, using live audit methodology.

6.8.6.12 A random sample of the paper records should be
        hand-interpreted and compared against the electronic records
        during the live election using the procedure outlined in
        proposed section 6.9 (see [1]).


References

[1] Walmsley, Paul. _Requirements for Statistical Live Auditing of
   Optical-Scan and VVPAT Records._  September 30, 2005.    <http://www.booyaka.com/~paul/ea/eac-20050930/interpretation-live-audit.txt>


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