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 politicians, media outlets and social media. “This statewide audit helps to support the idea that...
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