Submitted by Lauren Blaha & Nancy McCormik, ROV Killingworth.
(Dec. 3, 2019) — Pursuant to Public Act 07-194 -The Town of Killingworth was randomly selected to participate in the Audit of the November 5, 2019 Election. 5% of the polling places were picked for this. The Audit will be conducted Monday, December 9, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. in the Emergency Operations Center.
The Town Clerk held a drawing of races to be Audited:
 First Selectman
 Selectman
 Planning & Zoning Board of Appeals – Alternate.
The primary purpose of the hand count audit is to assess how well the optical scan voting machines functioned in an actual election and to ensure that votes cast using these machines are counted properly and accurately.
Please note: This is not a recount where the focus is reviewing each ballot to determine voter intent in rendering a final vote count. Rather, the audit tests whether the machines accurately counted ballots that were properly marked. Therefore, a critical part of the audit process is to separate ballots into groups: (1) ballots that are properly marked by voters (i.e., marked in such a way that one would expect the optical scan machine to be able to scan and read such ballots); and (2) ballots that one expects would not be read by the machine (e.g., a slash through the candidate oval, small dot or partially filled in oval).
