Audit Mark
Every single ballot in the election is imaged and appended with Dominion’s patented AuditMark, a record of how the system interpreted the voter’s selections. This ballot- level audit trail allows election officials and other stakeholders to review not only the ballot images, but also the tabulator’s interpretation of each ballot.
Each image is labeled with the tabulator, batch, and sequence number within the batch, which corresponds to the physical ballot in the stack. The AuditMark is appended directly to the image showing how the vote was interpreted at scan time. This AuditMark will also include any adjudications applied to the ballot for voter intent. Even if ballots for a given batch are mixed after scanning, these multiple records provide a way of correlating the digital Cast Vote Record data to the image scanned and finally to the physical paper ballot. While the AuditMark allows ballot-level auditing, it is never tied to the voter.