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Status of Audit Legislation:
Signed into law 2005
Link to Text of Legislation:
Sampling Method:
Five percent of precincts.
Trigger:
Whenever the vote total obtained from the manual count of the voter verified paper ballots for all votes cast in a randomly selected precinct: (1) Differs by more than one percent from the automated vote tabulation equipment; or (2) Results in a different prevailing candidate or outcome, either passage or defeat, of one or more ballot issues such precincts for any contest or ballot issue; then the discrepancies shall immediately be disclosed to the public and all of the voter-verified paper ballots shall be manually counted.
Oversight:
Board of Canvassers
Who Conducts the Audit?:
The Board of Canvassers
Types of Voting Machines in Use:
Optical Scan and DREs
For more detailed information, see Verified Voting's website:http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/map.php?&topic_string=5std&year=2008&state=West%20Virginia
Races that are Audited:
Entire Ballot
Voting Units that are Audited:
Precincts
Completed Before Certification?:
Yes
Do the results of the audit become the official tally?:
Yes