Section 410-RICR-20-00-28.1 - DefinitionsA. "Audit Team" means a pair of two electors, not of the same political affiliation in Rhode Island, who manually examine and report markings on ballot cards.B. "Audit Center" means the page or pages of the Board of Elections' website devoted to risk-limiting audits.C. "Auxiliary Audit Stratum" means a group of ballots for which no batch tallies are available, and which are audited by a ballot polling audit, the results of which are combined with a batch comparison audit of the ballots for which batch tallies are available.D. "Ballot Cards" means the individual pieces of paper that together constitute a single ballot containing all of the contests an elector is eligible to vote. For example, a ballot consisting of a single piece of paper with content printed on the front or the front and back contains one ballot card, and a ballot consisting of two pieces of paper with content printed on the front and back of the first page and the front or front and back of the second page contains two ballot cards.E. "Ballot Manifest" means a list that indicates how the ballot cards in an election are organized and stored.F. "Ballot Polling Audit" means a type of risk-limiting audit in which the audit teams examine voter markings on randomly selected ballot cards seeking strong evidence that the reported tabulation outcome is correct.G. "Batch" means a group of ballot cards.H. "Batch Comparison Audit" means a type of risk-limiting audit in which the audit teams examine and tally markings on randomly selected batches of ballot cards, then compare the totals for the batches to the voting system's tabulation totals for the same batches.I. "Batch Tallies" means the vote counts, reported by batch, for each candidate or choice in the target contest(s).J. "Contest" means an election for an office or for a measure.K. "Public Observation Area" means the place where the general public can observe the audit. Any person who willfully disrupts the audit to the extent that the orderly conduct of the audit is seriously compromised may be removed from the public observation area.L. "Reported Tabulation Outcome" means the presumed winning and losing candidates or voting choices of a contest as reflected in the unofficial final results.M. "Review Board" means a pair of two electors, not of the same political affiliation in Rhode Island who, when an audit team cannot agree, manually examine and report markings on ballot cards.N. "Risk Limit" means the largest statistical probability that an incorrect reported tabulation outcome is not detected and corrected in a risk-limiting audit.O. "Risk-Limiting Audit" (herein "RLA") means a manual tally employing a statistical method that ensures a large, predetermined minimum chance of requiring a full manual tally whenever a full manual tally would show an electoral outcome that differs from the outcome reported by the vote-tabulating system for the audited contest.P. "RLA tool" means the software and user interfaces used by the Board of Elections staff in order to conduct RLAs.Q. "Target Contest" means a contest selected by the Board of Elections for a risl- limiting audit.R. "Unofficial Final Results" means election results tabulated pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 17-19-36 and 17-19-37.410 R.I. Code R. 410-RICR-20-00-28.1
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