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The use of risk-limiting audits to verify election results, including their implementation and effectiveness.
’s official post‑2020 procedures included a state‑mandated risk‑limiting audit that turned into a full manual hand tally of the and a subsequent machine recount; both the hand audit and the recount re...
Zero tapes are the pre-voting printouts that show a scanner’s starting count and are meant to establish a verifiable “zero” baseline for each machine; their role is to help create chain-of-custody and...
After the , states deployed routine post‑election processes — risk‑limiting audits (RLAs), statutory recounts and numerous lawsuits — that in many swing states affirmed certified results, while critic...
; instead it sets constraints on how audits may be conducted — principally preservation and chain‑of‑custody requirements and protections against voter intimidation — while leaving design, frequency a...
’s presidential contest in 2020 was counted three ways — an initial machine tabulation, a statewide manual full hand tally conducted as a , and a statewide machine recount — and those tallies produced...
and routine post‑election procedures detect improper registrations and ballots by combining statistical sampling of paper ballots with process checks of voter rolls and chain‑of‑custody records, and b...
State-level post-election audits and recounts in 2024, where conducted, overwhelmingly reaffirmed the originally reported outcomes: risk-limiting audits and statutory recounts found only minimal discr...