Pennsylvania Starts Statewide Risk-Limiting Audit for Presidential Election
Department of State Begins Risk-Limiting Audit of 2024 General Election
November 18, 2024
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of State began Pennsylvania's statewide risk-limiting audit (RLA)1, this one for the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential election.
"Risk-limiting audits are the highest standard of comprehensive election audits, not just here in Pennsylvania, but across the country," Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said. "The RLA process provides a statistically sound, scientific method for confirming that the reported outcome of the election is accurate."
Ten Department employees took turns rolling 10-sided dice this morning to generate a 20-digit "seed number," which is used to randomly determine which batches of ballots counties will audit over the next several days.Watch the 2024 risk-limiting audit dice roll.
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Press Secretary ra-st-press@pa.gov
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Risk-Limiting Audits, Verified Voting, retrieved November 19, 2024, https://verifiedvoting.org/audits/whatisrla/
A risk-limiting audit (RLA) checks a random sample of voter-verifiable paper ballots, giving strong evidence to support the reported election results (or triggering a recount).
Department of State Begins Risk-Limiting Audit of 2024 General Election, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, retrieved November 19, 2024, https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/dos/newsroom/department-of-state-begins-risk-limiting-audit-of-2024-general-e.html
Is this something this state always does routinely or is this due to some issue ?
Good! I’ve been reading you and Stephen Spoonamore for a week or so and I’m very happy this audit is happening!