Discrepancy Report for Automated Independent Audit
(NOTE: This report is required only when the automated tally and official totals
show a discrepancy in any contest of ½ of 1% or more of the votes being audited.)
County: _________________________________________ Precinct: ___________________
Ballot type: ___________________________________________________________________
Race: ________________________________________________________________________
Candidate or Issue
Audit
System
Adjudicated
Votes
Audit
Indeterminate
Votes
Canvassing
Board
Adjustments
Audit
Total Votes
+=
Certified
Results
Total
=
Difference
= -
(+ or –)
Number of overvotes
Number of undervotes
Note: See definitions of terms on next page. Next page is not to be submitted with this page.
Rule 1S-5.026, F.A.C.
DS-DE 106A (eff. 01/ 2014)
DEFINITIONS FOR FORM DS-DE 106A
(NOTE: Do not submit when submitting first page of Form DS-DE 106A)
Audit Indeterminate Votes = number of votes where a marginal on a ballot caused the Canvassing Board to believe that the voting system
may not have tabulated a choice in a race.
Audit System Adjudicated Votes = number of votes where the audit system assessed a valid vote.
Audit Total Votes = the sum of Audit Valid Votes and Canvass Board Manual Adjustments.
Ballot Type = the method of voting, e.g., Election Day (in person) voting, Absentee (i.e., Vote-by-Mail), Early Voting, Other (Military and
Overseas).
Canvassing Board Adjustments = net number of votes where the canvassing board determined that the voting system should have
tabulated a marginal mark as a choice in a race.
Certified Results Total = the number representing the official certified results (votes) reported for the race by ballot type and appropriate
precincts.
Difference = the number representing the difference in the calculation: Certified Results Total minus Audit Total Votes.
Overvotes = the number representing those votes where the voter marks or designates more names that there are person to be elected to an
office or designates more than one answer to a ballot question, and the tabulator records no vote for the office or question.
Undervotes (i.e., blank votes) = the number representing those votes where the elector does not properly designate any choice for an office
or ballot question, and the tabulator or audit system records no vote for the office or question.
Rule 1S-5.026, F.A.C.
DS-DE 106A (eff. 01/ 2014)