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Clerk announces public ballot verifier tool; office says images and tabulation data available for self-audit
Summary
Keith of the clerk's office announced that the county's ballot verifier tool is live: post-election ballot and tabulation images are available online, the vendor validates results without access to raw county data, and the tool displays a verification stamp when checks tie out.
Keith from the clerk's office told the Ada County Board of Commissioners on July 7 that the ballot verifier tool is now available to the public. He said post-election ballot images and the tabulation-machine images are online for anyone to explore and self-audit.
Keith described the vendor relationship and privacy safeguards: county staff collect and provide post-election data to the vendor (identified in the meeting as Severa), which performs independent validation without direct access to county systems. "They do not have access to our data at all and never will," Keith said. When the vendor's checks tie out, a blue stamp on the tool indicates the data set is valid.
Commissioners and staff stressed the verifier is anonymous: the only way a ballot could be linked to a voter is if someone intentionally wrote their name on the ballot. The clerk's office encouraged the public to use the verifier to inspect how ballots were read and tabulated during the last primary.
The announcement was presented as an update during the open meeting; staff offered to explain verification processes again periodically and said they plan further legal-session discussion on related urban renewal responses.
