Image Credit Edmond Dantès/Pexels Since honest elections benefit everyone, what would motivate efforts to prevent even the most basic confirmation of election results?
Virginia Democrats have inserted an amendment to the Virginia budget that would forbid even the most basic audit of the 2024 election.
The budget amendment reads, “[A] risk-limiting audit of a presidential election or an election for the nomination of candidates for the office of president shall not be conducted.”
The risk-limiting audit (RLA) is a process designed to confirm that the machine count of ballot results matches the physical ballots that have been preserved. The RLA process begins with a relatively small number of randomly selected ballots and expands its scope until statistical near-certainty that the machines have accurately reported the paper ballot results has been reached.After the 2020 election, the Virginia State Board of Elections expanded the methods available for RLAs to include a type called the […]
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