6.04

Risk Assessment

Principle 6 - Define Objectives and Risk Tolerances

Attribute 6.04 - Management defines objectives in measurable terms so that performance toward achieving those objectives can be assessed. Measurable objectives are generally free of bias and do not require subjective judgments to dominate their measurement. Measurable objectives are also stated in a quantitative or qualitative form that permits reasonably consistent measurement.

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Election Anomalies

Maricopa County Signature Verification (2020)

Governance issues identified from Arizona Attorney General's Office 2020 General Election Investigation of Arizona Senate allegations of Maricopa County - Signature Verification Process issues. The Signature Verifier is the single person held responsible for detecting a potentially fraudulent ballot by the identification of a signature mismatch. Despite the importance of this role. There appears to be no MC assessment of their performance, which should be defined by the accuracy of the signature comparisons, not the throughput of verifications. It is quite possible that the only feedback the Signature Verifiers receive is for their overly conservative decisions, identifying a potentially fraudulent ballot with enough similar traits to consider the signature match as valid. The Signature Verifier are unlikely to receive feedback that they keep missing signature mismatches, which would allow fraudulent ballots to be tabulated. kl

There doesn't appear to be any method to objectively verify the performance of the signature verifier within the existing process.