Dear Cape May County Board of Elections,

This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.

This request is for information from the General Election held on NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I am requesting a text, comma, or tab delimited file, or a text-based report, listing, in the sequence processed by the county, every ballot, its sequential ID, its timestamp, its method of voting (for example: mail-in, provisional, in-person, absentee, "other", etc.), the specific votes contained for all races, and the batch ID and tabulator ID. Should any fields not be available, please include the fields which are. To be clear, I am NOT requesting a summary report of votes, I am requesting a per-ballot report. This set of information is sometimes known as a "Cast Vote Record" (CVR), "ballot log", or a "summary of ballots". If the data exists as multiple files or reports, for instance by batch or by precinct, you do not need to aggregate them, please send the individual files. I specifically do NOT want any information that identifies a specific voter, and I guarantee and stipulate that this information will not be used for that purpose.

A report of this type would have very likely already been created when Cape May County audited the election results. If not, and you are not readily familiar with how to generate this report, you can generally find instructions for creating the cast vote record in the User Guide of the voting machines used by Cape May County. Simply select choices for ALL records. SEPARATE file per batch, and JSON format. If using Democracy Suite, you would need to select Export/CVR Export.

I am hopeful that there is someone within the Cape May County Elections Commission or Board of Elections who will be able to generate the report I am looking for. Since this request is for information that will be used for educational purposes, and is NOT INTENDED FOR COMMERCIAL USE, I would like to also respectfully request that any fees be waived.

Ideally, I would like to receive the report via electronic transmission. However, if the data must be copied to a USB drive, I will happily supply the necessary device to the county in order to make that happen.

Once again, I am attaching relevant instructions for your reference.
I would like to thank you in advance for your assistance with my request.

Yours faithfully,

Lynne Lippincott