Atlanta, GA — Enhanced Voting, a leader in election technology, announces the launch of its groundbreaking Enhanced Audit software, designed to ensure unprecedented accuracy and transparency in election results. Deployed for the first time during Georgia’s 2024 General Election, Enhanced Audit has facilitated the largest ballot image audit in history, setting a new standard in ballot auditing. It is also the first audit to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to compare the human-readable portions of summary ballots with the tabulation results.
The full audit report for the State of Georgia can be found at https://sos.ga.gov/page/ballot-image-audit.
The Enhanced Audit System is a comprehensive solution that enables election officials to verify election accuracy by comparing initial results with tabulation from ballot images. This critical comparison highlights discrepancies and ensures that every vote aligns with the official records, offering unparalleled transparency into the election process from the moment the voter casts a ballot until the final results are certified.
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Key Features of the Enhanced Audit System:
- Complete Data Integration: Users can easily upload and process election data, including ballot images, original election results, and cast vote records (CVRs).
- Batch Management & Discrepancy Review: The system offers an information-rich overview of all uploaded image batches, highlighting potential discrepancies and enabling auditors to quickly identify and review individual ballot images.
- Automated and Manual Discrepancy Handling: Enhanced Audit leverages a state-of-the-art mark-sense detection engine for hand-marked ballots, and cutting-edge optical character recognition (OCR) to read ballot style information, contest titles, and voter selections directly from summary ballot images. By comparing this data to expected values, the software identifies potential inconsistencies with unrivaled precision. When discrepancies arise:
- Ballot Readability Alerts: If Enhanced Audit cannot read a ballot because of image quality or ambiguous voter intent, the image is flagged, prompting auditors to assign values manually for clarity and transparency.
- Low Confidence Markers: When Enhanced Audit reads the voter’s selections but falls short of Enhanced Voting’s stringent confidence threshold, the system displays a “Low Confidence” warning, prompting a quick, secondary review by the audit team to ensure accuracy.
The Enhanced Audit System empowers election officials with a robust tool for verifying results while highlighting potential issues in real-time, streamlining the verification process, and minimizing manual intervention. Enhanced Voting’s new software underscores its commitment to advancing secure, transparent, and trusted elections through innovation.