Glossary Term: audit
Name
(The name of the term, use lower case unless it's a proper noun.)- audit
Preferred Definition
(The definition that we shall use, regardless of whether we, in a particular jurisdiction, use the term differently.)- Verification of statistical or exact agreement of records from different processes or subsystems of a voting system.
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Status
("Final" or "Under Revision". Use final when adding a new term. When suggesting a revision, change from "Final" to "Under Revision", then include the revision in the Suggested Revision field and an explanation in the Notes field.)- Final.
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Comments
This is a test comment from John McCarthy --
John Mc Carthy - 2018-07-03
This is a second test comment from John McCarthy to see if comments show up - it looks like they do!
-- John Mc Carthy - 2018-07-03
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Topic revision: r3 - 2018-07-03 - JohnMcCarthy
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