Confirming votes and audits

Confirming votes

After submitting votes, each voter receives a confirmation code.

The confirmation code can be used on the confirm-votes page to verify:

• Voting Event title
• Position and selected candidate entries
• Total confirmed vote count
• Submission time

Confirmation code behavior

• Codes are unique per voter submission batch.
• If a user enters digits without CC prefix, Pepvote can still resolve by applying the expected format.

Counting and audit workflow

Voting Event teams can use the votes table to:

• Search by confirmation code
• Review vote records, including the raw tally value and effective weighted value
• Export vote records to CSV
• Recount votes when the plan supports it

For plurality and approval records, the raw value is normally 1. For score records it is the chosen score, and for cumulative records it is the allocated point amount. The effective weighted value is calculated as raw value × normalized stored weight; missing, non-finite, and non-positive stored weights are treated as 1.

CSV exports include rawValue, weight, and effectiveWeightedValue so an audit can reproduce the displayed weighted tally.

This supports post-voting event verification and reporting.