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English: Ballot images are digital pictures of the front and back of paper ballots and are automatically created by election scanners, which count votes in the images.
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States
- AL Most counties do not save.[1]
- AZ SOS procedures 12/20/2019, page 262: https://azsos.gov/sites/default/files/2019_ELECTIONS_PROCEDURES_MANUAL_APPROVED.pdf
- CA SOS requirement 6/8/2020, page 4: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/pdf/2020/june/20108sl.pdf updated by new SOS 5/19/2021, page 2: https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/2021/may/21059sl.pdf
- CO all except hand count in San Juan County 10/23/2020, from http://electionquality.com/
- FL counties 9/4/2020, from https://www.ffec.org/
- GA SB202 3/25/2021 makes images public records, p.98, §51 https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/201498
- MA State approvals of ES&S and Dominion election machines in 2014 said, "The scanner also has the ability to capture digital images of each ballot, but this function can be disabled to comply with current state law." pp.11,16 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.226888/gov.uscourts.mad.226888.15.2.pdf AP said "State statutes bar anyone from re-examining ballots outside of a recount, post-election audit or court order" without citation. “Because of those statutes...our certified tabulator vendors are instructed to turn that functionality off on equipment used in Massachusetts,” SOS spokesperson told AP in 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20230306013513/https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9472752830
- MD 2020 Administrator's Report https://www.elections.maryland.gov/about/meeting_materials/July_23_2020.pdf
- MI MI SOS has counties preserve images only of write-ins (pp.7,28), to save 2-5 seconds per ballot in precinct scanning (p.5): https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/DominionBid_549578_7.pdf
- OH Ohio SOS directive 4/20/2018, section IX https://www.ohiosos.gov/globalassets/elections/directives/2018/dir2018-10.pdf Most counties do not save.[1]
- PA SOS directive 6/9/2011, section 12: https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Directives/EVS%20Usage%20Directive.pdf Most counties do not save.[1]
- SC Law 7-13-1330(M) (added by Act 150 signed 5/13/2022) "An optical scan voting system must maintain an image of each ballot that is cast in a manner that protects the integrity of the data and the anonymity of each voter."
- TX SOS requirement 10/23/2019, section 12: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2019-23.shtml#section12
- VA Virginia Dept. of Elections Commissioner Christopher Piper 10/19/2020 in radio interview at 47:00, on "HearSay with Cathy Lewis," WHRV National Public Radio affiliate, Norfolk, VA, "We are required to maintain the ballot images, so, for 22 months. So essentially, every time a ballot's run through a machine it's captured and the digital image is preserved by federal law for 22 months. The release of those images does take some requesting." https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/hearsay/e/hearsay-monday-october-19th-2020 Most counties do not save.[1]
- VT SOS statement 8/31/2021 for ballot images from audit in 7 towns (there are no other ballot images): keep for 22 months, as public records. Sample of towns changes each election.
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| current | 02:47, 22 September 2024 | | 6,288 × 6,024 (7.24 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Update PA, TX, VA |
| 21:46, 6 July 2022 |  | 7,992 × 3,960 (6.36 MB) | Numbersinstitute | correct alaska | |
| 21:40, 6 July 2022 |  | 7,992 × 3,960 (6.36 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Counties getting new equipment as of July 2022 | |
| 03:00, 1 July 2022 |  | 8,488 × 4,008 (5.75 MB) | Numbersinstitute | SC new law to keep images | |
| 20:37, 19 April 2021 |  | 8,648 × 4,128 (5.26 MB) | Numbersinstitute | show that Maryland keeps images | |
| 23:39, 12 April 2021 |  | 8,648 × 4,120 (5.27 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Central scanner DS850 keeps images. GA law keeps images | |
| 05:26, 26 October 2020 |  | 9,368 × 4,352 (4.36 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Updated CO+VA | |
| 23:45, 20 October 2020 |  | 9,104 × 4,352 (4.34 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Add Pennsylvania keeping images per SOS | |
| 15:50, 1 October 2020 |  | 8,920 × 4,376 (4.32 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Kalamazoo+Washtenaw Counties MI do preserve images | |
| 01:24, 1 October 2020 |  | 9,064 × 4,296 (4.33 MB) | Numbersinstitute | Updated SOS instructions and MI+MA avoidance of images |
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