CA Election Monitoring --A Training Manual

Michelle Gabriel of the Voting Rights Task Force of Alameda County, CA has compiled a training handbook for election monitoring based on CA election code, and borrowing ideas from the BlackboxVoting Toolkit, the SAV R VOTE (Riverside Co.) Election Monitoring Report, the DFA-NH report "We're Counting the Votes," and other sources -- and her own experience as a pollworker and election observor. The site includes sections for Security, Testing, Companies, Audits, Procedures, Accessibility, Registration, and Monitoring. This is a work open to revision, and your comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. See below for the Table of Contents. Michelle is seeking monitors for the CA 11th Congressional District. The 11th District covers portions of four counties in CA and is shaping up to be one of the most contested House races in California this November 7. Michelle is on the EDA Election Monitoring E-mail list. You can communicate with her and other members of the EDA Election Monitoring Working Group by subscribing to the E-mail list for this Working Group. Look for the Discussion List heading in the top left corner of pages in the Forums section of the EDA website. Follow that link to the subscription page for the EDA working Groups. Select Monitoring from the displayed list of EDA Group lists, and follow the subscription instructions. CA Election Monitoring Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS What can I observe -- summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Who can observe -- summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What can I reconcile -- summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Pre-observing preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What can I observe -- detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Before the Election: Observing preparation and operation of tabulation devices programming, and testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Observing logic and accuracy testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Observing absentee ballot processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pollworker training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Observing poll set up. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 During the Voting Observing voting at the polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Observing poll close. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 After the Polls Close Observing chain of custody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Observing central counting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Observe 1% manual tally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 What can I reconcile -- detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Prioritizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Election Codes for Observing and Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Election Codes for Reconcile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Examples of problems caught. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 How do I report an incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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