Election Audits
Tips
on observing all steps in elections
Sample size estimates to audit each federal contest
2020
Winning margin & audit options in all contests, selected counties
Video explanation of
approaches to audits
Current
audit rules in each state (see map below)
Paper
on good ways to audit all contests
Costs of past audits
Reports on past audits:
Arizona's 2020 General
audits.
Arkansas: https://static.ark.org/eeuploads/elections/2020_Post_Election_Audit_Report_-_Final.pdf
California's 2021 Recall
audits and 2008-2011
and election administration plans
Colorado's 2017-2021
audits. 2018 critique of
2017 audits
Connecticut, 2011-present
(click "Next Dist" to get local report at
bottom of screen) and critique.
2022 RLA audit report,
and critique of RLA
report
Florida 2020
official audits. 3 counties independently audited by AuditEngine
Iowa: https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/results/xls/2020/2020PrecinctAudits.xlsx
Maryland: each county
audits a sample of one contest and Clear Ballot re-interprets every ballot
image: 2020
Clear Ballot
Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/BOE_2020_Post_Election_Audit_Report_04_21_21_723005_7.pdf
Minnesota: https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/how-elections-work/post-election-reviews/
Nebraska's 2020 General and Primary
audits (2% random sample of all precincts meant 1 or 2 each in 27 or
20 of the 93
counties).
New Mexico: https://www.sos.state.nm.us/voting-and-elections/how-we-secure-your-vote/election-audits/
New York: 2020 general for Kings, Nassau Richmond
Suffolk, Broome Cayuga Chenango Cortland Herkimer Madison Oneida Onondaga
Oswego Tioga Wayne counties & more on Madison+Oswego
(and guidance)
North Carolina's 2 precincts
per county and 1 local contest
in 17 counties
Ohio: https://www.sos.state.oh.us/elections/election-results-and-data/2020/
Pennsylvania's 2019-2020
audits and 2018 court agreement
"audit all unofficial election results using robust pre-certification
audit methods..."
Utah: https://voteinfo.utah.gov/2020-election-records/
Virginia: https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/election-security/rla/
with 2019-2020
audits; summary instructions
Washington's 2020 San Juan
County (very experienced) report &
video (staff
block view; 290 ok of 290 votes checked), and Pierce County report
(36 ok of 36 votes checked)
Please tell admin@votewell.net, the sites for other audit reports
Current, sortable, list of Audit Rules is actively and
accurately maintained at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_audit#Table_of_U.S._audit_rules
(the
map at https://www.mapresearch.org/democracy-maps/post_election_audits
is less up to date and less detailed)
