Loudoun Election Officials Join in Post-Election Ballot Audit
The ballots cast in Loudoun County’s Nov. 3, 2020, elections will get another look this week. The state conducts an annual statewide risk-limiting audit of ballot machines under a law passed in 2017 and an auditing program piloted in Fairfax County in 2018. Loudoun began participating in 2019. The audit involves examining a random sampling of ballots to check for evidence of a wrong outcome. It also serves to bolster voter confidence in election results, which has been under assault from some...
Source: loudounnow.com