Tennessee Code Title 2. Elections § 2-20-101

(1) “Performance audit” means a review of the procedures followed to conduct the election;

(2) “Precinct-based optical scanner” means an optical ballot scanner that is located in the precinct and into which optical scan voter-verified paper ballots, marked either by hand by the voter or with the assistance of a device, are inserted to count the voter verified paper ballot;

(3) “Risk-limiting audit” means a protocol which checks a random sample of ballots chosen by statistical methods;

(4) “Top race” means the presidential race, if the presidential race is on the ballot, or the governor's race, if the governor's race is on the ballot;

(5) “Traditional audit” means a protocol which requires bipartisan teams of election officials to hand count a number of randomly chosen ballots; and

(6) “Voter-verified paper ballot” means a permanent, individual paper ballot that is marked either manually by the voter or with the assistance of a device and verified by the voter as correctly reflecting the voter's intent, before the voter's vote is counted by the precinct-based optical scanner.