Citizens Oversight's Comments on Proposed CA SOS RLA Regulations

Citizens Oversight (2019-11-29) Ray Lutz

This Page: https://copswiki.org/Common/M1937

See below for the most recent comments to the amended regulations. The submitted documents are attached to this topic.

• CA SOS RLA Regs Comment by CitizensOversight COVER LETTER.pdf

Primary Comment document

• Comments on CA SOS RLA Regs (M1937).pdf

Marked up regulations

• CA SOS RLA Regs = Marked up by Citizens Oversight.pdf
• CA SOS RLA Regs = Marked up by Citizens Oversight.docx

The "Four Fatal Flaws of RLA Audits" (M1938, 2019-12-10 revision)

• As of this submission, this document was still open for comment here: M1938
• Four Fatal Flaws of RLA Audits (M1938).pdf Checkpoint sent to CA SOS.

Uniform Audit Tally Sheets (M1939) 2019-12-10 V0.3

• As of this submission, this document was still open for comment here: M1939
• "Audit Tally Sheet (M1939) 2019-12-10 V0.3.pdf" Checkpoint sent to CA SOS.

Uniform Audit Report Format (M1940) 2019-12-10 V0.3

• As of this submission, this document was still open for comment here: M1940
• "Audit Report Format (M1940) 2019-12-10 V0.3.pdf" Checkpoint sent to CA SOS.

Securing Digital Ballot Images to Enable Auditing (M1936)

• As of this submission, this document was still open for comment here: M1936
• "Securing Ballot Images to Enable Audits (M1936) 2019-12-10 V0.5.pdf" -- Checkpoint sent to CA SOS.

Comprehensive Risk Estimation in Election Audits (M1913)

• "Comprehensive Risk Estimation for Election Audits (M1913) 2019-08-29 v2.pdf"
• M1913

White Paper: Election Audit Strategy and BRAWL -- Balanced Risk Audit with Workload Limitation (2019-01-28)

• White Paper -- Election Audit Strategy -- Part 1 (Background)
  • White Paper - Election Audit Strategy Part 1 V0.7.pdf
• Election Audit Strategy Part 2: Audit Simulation and Balanced Risk Audits with Workload Limitation (BRAWL)
• WhitePaper-Election Audits Part 2-V0.4.pdf
• M1879

Click this link to comment on the Google Doc.

Revised Regulations

The SOS revised the proposed regulations as announced in the "Notice of Modifications to Proposed Regulations" posted at https://admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov/regulations/proposed/elections/audits/notice-of-modifications.pdf regarding risk-limited election audits.

Our comments were submitted on 2020-01-25.

• 2020-01-25 COPS Comments on revised CA RLA Regs.pdf: Comments on the revised regulations

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