cast vote

"In Berger's studious and elegant hands, every ceremoniously cast vote, every reaction shot, every severely worn regalia and every quietly eventful meal that the cardinals share is packed with breathless, skin-prickling suspense."

The Commonwealth Court majority ruled Monday that cast vote records are the “electronic, modern-day equivalent” of all the votes in a traditional ballot box and the optical scanners are considered voting machines under state law.

In a dissent, Judge Patricia McCullough said the cast vote records don’t associate a ballot with a specific voter.

Honey, who heads the Lebanon, Pennsylvania-based firm Haystack Investigations, had previously likened the cast vote record to a spreadsheet and described it as “merely a digital report tallying the results of ballots scanned into a tabulator. The CVR is a report that is prepared after an election from a desktop computer that is not and never was the contents of a ballot box.”

“You have only a few Democrats in one precinct or you only have a few Republicans in one precinct, so using the cast vote record, seeing which contests were voted on by each ballot, you could use that and other information that’s publicly available to identify how a particular voter voted,” Cox said.