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Members of staff at the Secretary of State’s office will roll the dice while members of public watch on the live stream

What is a risk-limiting audit? A risk-limiting audit is a post-election audit that gives a statistical level of confidence that the outcome of an election is correct. In other words, after performing a risk-limiting audit, we can say that there is a high probability that the reported winners accurately reflect how voters marked their ballots. […]

National MI turned heads yesterday by announcing its temporary increase to AUS conforming loan amounts, despite the official FHFA word not coming until the end of November. (More below on the amounts.) Our biz is filled with “numbers people,” good or bad. According to Curinos, September 2023 funded mortgage volume decreased 30 percent YoY and 14 percent MoM. The average 30-year conforming retail funded rate in September was 7.01 percent, 18bps higher than August and 146bps higher t...

KPMG Hungary has announced the appointment of two new partners as of October 1, 2023. Ildikó Takács is the new KPMG partner in the audit practice and Balázs Horváth is the new partner in the advisory practice.

Studies have shown that women who have large backsides live much longer than the men who comment on them. Studies also show that there are three basic groups of people in the United States: homeowners with 3 percent mortgages who don’t want to move, wannabe homeowners who don’t want 8 percent mortgages, and renters who don’t care. A growing number will tell you that the actions of the Federal Reserve have had a huge impact creating those groups, and creating the hiring/firin...

“I’m not a fan of elevator music. It’s bad on so many levels.” Whether or not you think that the environment and value of owning stock in lenders and vendors has been “bad” over the last year or two, it certainly has been dicey. If you want to “be long” lenders or other mortgage-related companies, you could put some of your hard-earned savings into RKT, ICE, GHLD, UWMC, HMPT, LDI, PMT, FOA, or COOP. Now you’ll have a new vehicle: BET...

Denver, July 25, 2022 - Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has announced the certification of the 2022 Primary Election. “I am excited to announce the

Denver, July 11, 2022 - Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold convened a public meeting today to establish the random seed for the 2022 Primary Election

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold convened a public meeting July 11 to establish the random seed for the 2022 Primary Election Bipartisan Risk-Limiting Audit.

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