Knowing It’s Right Part Four: Ballot Accounting Audits Best Practices Guide, intended for election officials and administrators, is part of Democracy Fund’s series on election auditing by Jennifer Morrell. Ballot accounting is an important element of a well-run election and plays a critical role in valid, post-election audits, and this guide presents best practices for […]
read moreIn November 2018, state and local officials in New Jersey took part in the Garden State’s first-ever pilot risk limiting audit (RLA) of voting equipment. A risk-limiting audit is nationally recognized as a reliable method to validate the integrity of the voting equipment and verify the accuracy of election results with a high degree of […]
read moreThe best way to learn how a risk-limiting audit (RLA) works is through hands-on experience. Conducting an RLA pilot provides an opportunity for everyone involved to become familiar with the terms and procedures. It is a great first step for states that are considering RLAs, or those that have recently passed RLA legislation, to learn […]
read moreOn December 7 and 8, 2018, The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) hosted the Multidisciplinary Conference on Election Auditing, or “Election Audit Summit,” for short, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference was organized by a small group of academics and practitioners from across the United States. Inspired by the groundswell […]
read moreKnowing It’s Right, Part Two: Risk-Limiting Audit Implementation Workbook provides soup-to-nuts information on how election officials can conduct a ballot-comparison audit and a complementary workbook to the overview of the field provided in Part One.
read moreKnowing It’s Right, Part One: A Practical Guide to Risk-Limiting Audits provides a higher level overview of the field of risk-limiting audits for state and local stakeholders who want to know more about risk-limiting audits before moving on to the implementation phase.
read moreThe following chart provides an overview of the state canvassing timeframes and recount thresholds in each state. State laws vary on the specific procedures for canvassing election results. In general, local officials (often a county canvassing board) meet within a specified timeframe to canvass and certify election results from precincts within the jurisdiction. Results for […]
read moreWhile Election Day marks the end of voters casting ballots, state and local election officials still have a long to-do list to go through after the election. These include the many states that conduct post-election audits of voting systems as well as recounts that may occur in close races.
read moreAn overview of post-election audits, how they work, what states are doing them, pending legislation and what are the advantages to conducting one.
read moreThis, the 17th electionline Briefing, explores the issue of post-election audits in a number of states. Like so many other issues in election administration, the study finds that rules governing the practice vary greatly across borders as does the size of the sample, public access and scrutiny and response to disparities between vote counts and […]
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