Discrepancy Report

2023 General Election, Broomfield County, CO

Audit Engine version:'v2.30.X'

Run Date: 2026-03-15 11:34:40.693941 Copyright (c) Citizens' Oversight

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Metadata Summary
• Summary of Discrepancy Records
• Contest Discrepancy Report
• Precinct Report
• Unprocessed Ballots Report

Introduction

This report is the result by AuditEngine compared with the official Cast Vote Records (CVR), when those records are available. If not, then the report reflects the evaluation of the election by AuditEngine including reports of variants detected, such as write-ins, overvotes, and gray-flags.

The following table summarizes what is compared and any limitations. This is a general description which is not modified for this specific case:

One of the key differences between ballot image audits by AuditEngine and other types of auditing, is that the comparison occur for all ballots at the ballot level, between the results from AuditEngine and the official results

Definitions

• Sheets -- Each ballot image comprises a single paper sheet, including both sides. This is the case even if multiple sheets are included in the logical ballot. Individual ballot sheets will include a number of contests. NOTE: Depending on the number of sheets included in a single logical ballot, the number of ballots cast may be less than the total number of sheets, and it may be hard to predict because subsequent sheets are commonly not included in the logical ballot cast. Counting the first sheet will usually produce a pretty accurate number, but even then, some voters do not include the first sheet either.

• Contest or Ballot-Contest -- A single contest on a single ballot is a "ballot-contest" and sometimes just "contest" in this context. This is not the entire contest with all votes from all ballots summed, but simply the evaluation of that single contest on that sheet. Frequently, these can be called "votes", except that sometimes a single contest will allow multiple votes.

• Write-in -- If the write-in oval is marked or if the write-in area is filled in, then it is considered that the voter intent is to write-in the name for some other candidate.
  How this is handled is specific to different states, but most often, the written-in name must also be from a list of qualified write-in candidates.
  Write-ins on BMD ballots do not need human-eye adjudication at this stage because the names are keyed in.
  The name written-in should be examined in close contests even if there were no candidates that were qualified for this contest, because the name written-in may be of a listed candidate, and if so, then the vote is accepted for that listed candidate.
  Write-ins normally account for about 80% of Contest Variants. At this stage, most jurisdictions do not fully filter whether the name written-in is a qualified write-in candidate, but may do so during adjudication.

• Overvotes -- One overvote occurs when more than the "vote-for" number are selected. Overvotes do not happen on BMD ballots. Very frequently, overvotes are misinterpreted by the voting system and should be fully reviewed in close contests. If a contests has an overvote, it will be first classified as an overvote, even when the write-in target is selected. Some election departments will mark overvotes as an undervote when they are confirmed as an overvote. AuditEngine understands this form of adjudication and does not regard it as a disagreement.
  
  AuditEngine will correctly interpret many marks that would be considered undervotes by voting systems, such as when ovals are circled or if a checkmark does not actually get inside the oval.

• Adjudicated -- For some voting systems, such as Dominion, the CVR may provide not only the original evaluation of the ballot sheet, but also a 'modified' record which includes all contests on the ballot. The 'modified' record may modify zero or many contests after human-eye review by election staff. If the modified record does not show a change in a given contest, it is not possible to know from that record if the contest was inspected and confirmed or not.
  
  AuditEngine also provides for adjudication of its evaluation using the AdjudiTally App. The results of the adjudication will be included in the analysis of the results. Any official hand counts can also be included in the comparison results.

• Disagreed -- a contest is considered "disagreed" unless the voting system and AuditEngine fully agree on the outcome, including whether it was overvoted, undervoted, or had write-ins. Since write-ins and overvotes are frequently reviewed and adjudicated by election staff, disagreed write-ins and overvotes are treated together in terms of analysis. "Normal Disagreed" are the rest of the disagreed, which are not write-ins or overvotes.

• Non-Variant Sheets -- A ballot sheet is classified as Non-Variant if it has no write-ins, overvotes, and gray-flags, and if compared, every contest fully agrees between the evaluation of the voting system and AuditEngine. Such sheets are maintained as a single record but keep track of the number and which contests are on them.

• Variant Removed Sheets -- If a ballot sheet has at least one contest-variant detected, then that contest variant is logically pulled from this comparison record, and what remains are the rest of the non-variant contests. Note that if all contests are considered contest-variants, then it will be an empty shell with no contests left in it, and all contest variants will be moved to the contest-variants set.

• Contest Variants -- A contest variant is a ballot-contest which has write-ins, overvotes, is gray-flagged, or if it is 'disagreed', i.e. if there is any disagreement between the evaluation of the vote by AuditEngine and the official result (if a comparison is performed). Undervotes are not included in the set unless they are disagreed. Contest Variants can normally be summed by contest. Each contest variant has a separate record for each ballot-contest instance.

• Unprocessed -- Unprocessed sheets are those that were NOT successfully processed by AuditEngine. These are generally due to images that are damaged due to 'stretching' of the image when the sheet is not evenly fed through the scanner, barcodes that were corrupted and unreliable, or BMD ballots that were not perfectly read using OCR. Cleaning the scanner rollers can help to avoid corrupted images. AuditEngine does not track contests on unprocessed sheets.

• Ballot Variant -- If a complete sheet is blank or if the image was detected as corrupted, then this is classified as a ballot-variant.

• Images Missing -- Sometimes we can't access all the images and so these are accounted for as images missing. AuditEngine does not attempt to sum the contests on ballot images that are missing.

High Level Reconciliation

Metadata Summary

Summary of Discrepancy Records

This first section is an election-wide review of the ballots that are considered

High Level Reconciliation

AuditEngine Flagged

If no CVR is available for comparison, then these groups are used to drive adjudication to fine tune the result from AuditEngine. These sets only include ballots with images.

The group 'ae_uncategorized' were classified as variants based on cvr comparison and not included in the cases detected without any cvr comparison. It is common for this to be a fairly large number of variants. These are analyzed separately below.

Contest Variants Breakdown

This high-level breakdown is based on AuditEngine evaluation.

Non Additive Groups

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Gray-Flagged

These contests are marked as variants only because AuditEngine noted ambiguous votes or heuristic vote resolution.

Disagreed_Groups

NORMAL DISAGREED (No writeins or overvotes) Unadjudicated and Adjudicated, BMD and nonBMD.

Group x_y_x are the votes correctly interpreted by AuditEngine but incorrectly interpreted by the voting system, but corrected in Adjudication. x_y_y are apparently adjudicated but are actually not reviewed, and so they tend to also be correctly interpreted by AuditEngine. Here we also consider disagreed undervotes, which are too common to consider variants if they are not disagreed.

Relevant Settings

Contest Discrepancy Report

This report is the most revealing in terms of possible changes in the outcome of any contests. Please see the more thorough description of each term in the introduction in this report.

• Total: Total ballots cast which included this contest with images that were processed by AuditEngine.

• NonVariant: Instances of this contest without write-ins, overvotes, and were not flagged as 'gray', and if compared, where the official outcome and the evaluation by AuditEngine agreed.

• Overvotes: Instances of this contest where both AuditEngine detected an overvote, and if compared, where the official outcome also detected an overvote. Please note that some districts mark reviewed overvotes as undervotes.

• Write-ins: Instances of this contest which included write-ins in terms of a marked target, but where the name written-in may not be a qualified write-in candidate, and the write-in may be correctly attributed as a vote for a listed candidate, and if compared, where the official outcome also detected a write-in.

• Undervotes: Undervotes are very numerous and are not included in the discrepancy report unless they are disagreed or gray flagged.

• Disagreed: Instances of this contest which were not initially evaluated as overvotes, write-ins, or gray-flagged, and if compared, where the evaluation by AuditEngine disagrees with the voting system.

• Gray Only: Instances of this contest where AuditEngine detected an ambiguous mark or used heuristics to decide voter-intent. This column omits any ballots which are already in the columns for write-ins, overvotes, or disagreed ballots, even if AuditEngine internally flags them as gray.

• All Variants: Ballots with Overvotes, Write-ins, Gray Flagged, or if compared, are disagreed. The number of ballot sheets cast should equal the sum of "Non-Variant", and "All Variants". The components of this column are highlighted.

• Disagreed% of Margin This provides a good measure of whether the variants may have any impact on the outcome, and the highest 5 values are highlighted. Further analysis is still required to see if the disagreements will reduce the current margin of victory.

• Variant% of Margin This provides a maximum measure of whether the variants may have any impact on the outcome, and the highest 5 values are highlighted, and any contest with variant% over 10%. Typically, the vast majority (perhaps 90%) of All Variants are Agreed Write-ins and Agreed Overvotes which may only rarely result in any changes in the outcome.

• Vote Margin: This is the margin of victory, i.e. gap between votes for runner-up and winner (lowest winner if contest has multiple winners) among the ballots processed, and may be a subset of the total margin for the entire district if AuditEngine did not receive or process all ballot images.

To reduce the report size, precinct details are limited to the first few contests or those contests that were highlighted or are included in the setting 'cmpcvr_report_include_contests'. If you are interested in a specific contest, include it in the setting 'cmpcvr_report_include_contests', which is a list.

Contest Discrepancy Report - Summary

This report provides only those contests which were the most concerning when variants and disagreements were compared with the margin of victory.

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield - Mayor (2 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Disagreed_Groups

NORMAL DISAGREED (No writeins or overvotes) Unadjudicated and Adjudicated, BMD and nonBMD.

Group x_y_x are the votes correctly interpreted by AuditEngine but incorrectly interpreted by the voting system, but corrected in Adjudication. x_y_y are apparently adjudicated but are actually not reviewed, and so they tend to also be correctly interpreted by AuditEngine. Here we also consider disagreed undervotes, which are too common to consider variants if they are not disagreed.

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield - Mayor (2 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'x_uv'

Unadjudicated disagreed contests with CVR undervotes (gray OK, No BMDs)

(Total of 3 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'x_uv' (#1 of 3 records)

00203_00373_000013

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield - Mayor (2 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'x_uv'

group: 'x_uv' (#2 of 3 records)

00203_00083_000026

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield - Mayor (2 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'x_uv'

group: 'x_uv' (#3 of 3 records)

00203_00161_000002

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield - Mayor (2 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'x_uv'

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_x'

Unadjudicated Disagreed overvotes, CVR votes (ov_x) (gray OK).

(Total of 2 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_x' (#1 of 2 records)

00203_00203_000008

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#2 of 2 records)

00203_00105_000017

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 3 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 4 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Disagreed_Groups

NORMAL DISAGREED (No writeins or overvotes) Unadjudicated and Adjudicated, BMD and nonBMD.

Group x_y_x are the votes correctly interpreted by AuditEngine but incorrectly interpreted by the voting system, but corrected in Adjudication. x_y_y are apparently adjudicated but are actually not reviewed, and so they tend to also be correctly interpreted by AuditEngine. Here we also consider disagreed undervotes, which are too common to consider variants if they are not disagreed.

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 4 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'x_uv'

Unadjudicated disagreed contests with CVR undervotes (gray OK, No BMDs)

(Total of 1 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'x_uv' (#1 of 1 records)

00203_00161_000002

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 4 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'x_uv'

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_uv'

Overvotes described as undervotes in CVR (ov_uv) (gray OK). May not be considered disagreed.

(Total of 1 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_uv' (#1 of 1 records)

00203_00514_000040

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_uv'

Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_x'

Unadjudicated Disagreed overvotes, CVR votes (ov_x) (gray OK).

(Total of 11 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_x' (#1 of 11 records)

00203_00512_000037

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#2 of 11 records)

00203_00510_000042

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#3 of 11 records)

00203_00071_000029

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#4 of 11 records)

00203_00039_000019

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#5 of 11 records)

00203_00182_000042

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#6 of 11 records)

00203_00069_000001

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#7 of 11 records)

00203_00065_000042

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#8 of 11 records)

00203_00003_000003

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#9 of 11 records)

00203_00022_000007

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#10 of 11 records)

00203_00050_000025

TOC > All contests > Contest 'City and County of Broomfield Councilmember Ward 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_uv'

Overvotes described as undervotes in CVR (ov_uv) (gray OK). May not be considered disagreed.

(Total of 1 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_uv' (#1 of 1 records)

00203_00281_000045

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_uv'

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_x'

Unadjudicated Disagreed overvotes, CVR votes (ov_x) (gray OK).

(Total of 14 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_x' (#1 of 14 records)

00203_00390_000006

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#2 of 14 records)

00203_00203_000026

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#3 of 14 records)

00203_00088_000002

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#4 of 14 records)

00203_00166_000041

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#5 of 14 records)

00203_00039_000037

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#6 of 14 records)

00203_00122_000001

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#7 of 14 records)

00203_00259_000011

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#8 of 14 records)

00203_00115_000042

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#9 of 14 records)

00203_00083_000046

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#10 of 14 records)

00203_00079_000015

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 1 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Disagreed_Groups

NORMAL DISAGREED (No writeins or overvotes) Unadjudicated and Adjudicated, BMD and nonBMD.

Group x_y_x are the votes correctly interpreted by AuditEngine but incorrectly interpreted by the voting system, but corrected in Adjudication. x_y_y are apparently adjudicated but are actually not reviewed, and so they tend to also be correctly interpreted by AuditEngine. Here we also consider disagreed undervotes, which are too common to consider variants if they are not disagreed.

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_uv'

Overvotes described as undervotes in CVR (ov_uv) (gray OK). May not be considered disagreed.

(Total of 3 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_uv' (#1 of 3 records)

00203_00138_000046

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_uv'

group: 'ov_uv' (#2 of 3 records)

00203_00416_000015

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_uv'

group: 'ov_uv' (#3 of 3 records)

00203_00131_000005

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_uv'

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_x'

Unadjudicated Disagreed overvotes, CVR votes (ov_x) (gray OK).

(Total of 13 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_x' (#1 of 13 records)

00203_00059_000031

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#2 of 13 records)

00203_00063_000017

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#3 of 13 records)

00203_00168_000002

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#4 of 13 records)

00203_00266_000040

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#5 of 13 records)

00203_00126_000037

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#6 of 13 records)

00203_00187_000011

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#7 of 13 records)

00203_00070_000017

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group: 'ov_x' (#8 of 13 records)

00203_00416_000040

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group: 'ov_x' (#9 of 13 records)

00203_00140_000015

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group: 'ov_x' (#10 of 13 records)

00203_00044_000035

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Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 2 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'x_uv'

Unadjudicated disagreed contests with CVR undervotes (gray OK, No BMDs)

(Total of 1 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'x_uv' (#1 of 1 records)

00203_00138_000033

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Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)'

The following results of CVR and Audit are only including those ballots available for comparison. Missing ballot images are not included in those totals.

Official Results, when listed, are from other supplied data and not from the CVR. Overvotes and undervotes are typically not included in the Official Results. Also, depending on how they were derived, the num_ballots may not be available. Therefore, zeroes in these positions and "Diff" values should be ignored.

The following contest variant groups not included in the detailed list below

Overvotes detailed

Overvotes will only occur on hand-marked ballots and may have already been reviewed by election staff.

When adjudication records are provided, election workers sometimes mark overvotes as undervotes during adjudication, to keep track of whether an overvote has been reviewed. Any overvotes that are converted to votes will no longer have an overvote marking, and those that are indeed overvotes are converted to undervote marking. Although this may be a workable approach, it unfortunately distorts the statistics regarding overvotes, because normal reporting will say that no overvotes exist.

When this practice is used, and if adjudication is used, 'ov_ov_uv' is an actively confirmed overvote, while 'ov_ov_ov' means only that the adjudication record was created, but we don't know if this contest was reviewed and confirmed.

Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)', group: 'ov_x'

Unadjudicated Disagreed overvotes, CVR votes (ov_x) (gray OK).

(Total of 8 cmpcvr records; this report limited to a maximum of 10 ballot sheets)

group: 'ov_x' (#1 of 8 records)

00203_00507_000048

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group: 'ov_x' (#2 of 8 records)

00203_00069_000035

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group: 'ov_x' (#3 of 8 records)

00203_00094_000032

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group: 'ov_x' (#4 of 8 records)

00203_00020_000047

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group: 'ov_x' (#5 of 8 records)

00203_00157_000016

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group: 'ov_x' (#6 of 8 records)

00203_00309_000048

TOC > All contests > Contest 'Adams 12 Five Star Schools School Director District No. 5 (4 Years) (Vote For=1)' > Group 'ov_x'

group: 'ov_x' (#7 of 8 records)

00203_00046_000043

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group: 'ov_x' (#8 of 8 records)