Good news: There is hope for meaningful bipartisan cooperation to improve elections!
A major bipartisan election security measure not mentioned in this article: Risk-limiting audits, or RLAs, of election outcomes. #ElectionSecurity #ElectionTwitter 1/7
votebeat.org/2023/3/20/2364…
A major bipartisan election security measure not mentioned in this article: Risk-limiting audits, or RLAs, of election outcomes. #ElectionSecurity #ElectionTwitter 1/7
votebeat.org/2023/3/20/2364…
RLAs are hand-count samples of the physical ballots designed to have a high mathematical probability of catching and correcting an error that swung an election. 2/7
Election officials and lawmakers from both major parties, in states as politically diverse as Texas, Rhode Island, Georgia, California, Virginia, and Colorado are enacting and conducting risk-limiting audit projects. 3/7
(Source: Presentation by Ginny Vander Roest of Voting Works, at the conference of the Election Verification Network, March 17, 2023.) 4/7 #EVN2023
The article discusses audits of digital images of ballots, these can be a powerful election transparency tool if backed by RLAs. 5/7
Digital images alone are not enough - see the report of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, "Securing the Vote," p. 94. 6/7 nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/…
By combining both approaches, and implementing good chain of custody, we might just make vote counting boring again. Wouldn't that be nice? 7/7
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