EACTFOI - 240221

Access to documents held by the Commission, including correspondence, relating to the QR codes used in the 2020 election.
I apply for access to documents containing information about:

• Audits of QR codes issued for voting and administrative actions
• Missing or extra QR codes
• Inconsistencies in QR code production, handling, or destruction
• Reviews or changes to the audit method or process
• The algorithm used to create voter QR code data

I also apply for documents containing totals and statistics about the number of QR codes:

• Printed
• Issued to voters or polling officials
• Scanned
• Recovered from voters or polling officials
• Destroyed
• And how many times each QR code was scanned.

To be clear, I am seeking summary statistics and individual QR code exception reports. You can exclude documents that only consist of detailed information about large numbers of typical QR codes.

Just a quick amendment.

I would also like documents containing information about:

• The algorithm used to generate the admin QR codes which authenticate polling officials
• Audits and summary statistics for the QR codes used during user acceptance testing, since they are identical to the QR codes used during the election.

As a general clarification, I am seeking documents related to the following Elections ACT processes:

• ‘Election officials in electronic polling places account for e-voting cards in much the same way as they do for paper ballots. They provide records of e-voting cards issued which are compared with the number of electronic votes cast.
• Reports of errors, votes not concluded as described on page 14 of the eVACS Operational Concept Description
• The various checks and reconciliations described on page 41 of the HAZOP Study eVACS a election system, which contain information about discrepancies between the number of e-voting cards issued, and the number of votes recorded.

I am also seeking documents related to similar admin QR code tracking processes that Elections ACT carries out to ensure election security.

And I am seeking other documents related to QR Code security, as specified in my request.

Access application

• Decision letter

• Ballot papers and barcodes printing specs 2020
• Canberra mailing and envelopes
• CanPrint tender response
• Electronic vote counts
• email - files with CanPrint
• email thread - FTP transfer site
• How to balance on a prepoll day
• How to balance on polling night - prepoll
• Uncompleted votes report
• Letter of variation CanPrint Contract 18 Sept
• Certificate of secure destruction
• EVC error reports