Random Audit
Random Audit: A public process of manually tallying a percentage of votes, selected at random by the elections official, and typically involves a defined…
Definition
A public process of manually tallying a percentage of votes, selected at random by the elections official, and typically involves a defined minimum number of precincts or races. This procedure is conducted to verify the accuracy of an automated count.
Alternative Definitions
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An AUDIT of voting machines selected at ra ndom. “Following each primary, general, coordinated, or congressional district vacancy election, the secretary of state shall publicly initiate a manual random audit to be conducted by each county and shall randomly select not less than one percent of the voting devices used in each county; except that, where a central count voting device is in use in the county, the rules … shall require an audit of a specified percentage of ballots counted within the county.” Col. Stat. §1-7-514(1).