Audit
Audit: (1) Systematic, independent, documented process for determining the extent to which specified requirements are fulfilled.
Definition
(1) Systematic, independent, documented process for determining the extent to which specified requirements are fulfilled. (2) A review of a system and its controls to determine its operational status and the accuracy of its outputs.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
Systematic, independent, documented process for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information and assessing them objectively to determine the extent to which specified requirements are fulfilled. NOTE: Whilst audit applies to management systems, assessment applies to conformity assessment bodies as well as more generally.
- Definition 3
Systematic, independent, documented process for obtaining records, statements of fact, or other relevant information and assessing them objectively to determine the extent to which specified requirements are fulfilled.
- Definition 4
An independent pre- and/or post-election evaluation of an organization, system or process which includes quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Definition 5
A review of a system and its controls to determine its operational status and the accuracy of its outputs. Election system audits seek to determine if controls are properly designed and functioning to ensure the correctness of intermediate and final results of the system’s processing.
- Definition 6
Inventory and reconciliation of the holdings, records, and procedures of a COMSEC account ensuring all accountable COMSEC material is properly handled and safeguarded.
- Definition 7
“Verification of statistical or exact agreem ent of records from different processes or subsystems of a voting system.” 2007 VVSG. A “systematic, independent, documented process for obtaining records, statements of fact or other relevant information and assessing them objectively to determine the extent to which specified requirements are fulfilled.” 2005 VVSG GLOSSARY. Some electronic voting statutes provide for a system audit after voting has ended. “This audit must be conducted by randomly selec ting by lot up to four percent of the direct recording electronic voting devices or one direct recording electronic voting device, whichever is greater, and, for each device, comparing the re sults recorded electronically with the results recorded on paper. For purposes of this audit, the results recorded on paper must be tabulated as follows: On one-fourth of the devices selected for audit, the paper records must be tabulated manually; on the remaining devices, the paper records may be tabulated by a mechanical device determined by the secretary of state to be capable of accurately reading the votes cast and printed thereon and qualified for use in the st ate under applicable state and federal laws.” Wash. Rev. Code §29A.60.185. See