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State lawmakers are hoping that a big investment in county election offices will help reveal results faster this November. But local registrars warn that expectations of speedy election results in the fall should be cooled. A lot has been said — and critiqued — about how California conducts its elections, especially when it comes to how long it takes for winners to be declared. Orange County Register.
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Transparency by the dashboard light
Leon Co., Fla. dashboard offers window to audits
By Mark Earley, supervisor of elections
Leon County, Florida
On election night, the public watches vote totals roll in on the news. What most voters never see is the careful work that comes after, when election officials confirm that every ballot was counted exactly as the voter intended.
After each election, the Leon County Elections Office runs every voted ballot through a second, independent tabulator. The results from that retabulation audit are compared against the original count, contest by contest. In our 2022 primary and general elections, the two systems matched at a rate above 99.99%.
That fact should build confidence in elections, but, for too long, much of that work happened out of public view. Voters were asked to trust a process they could not easily examine for themselves.
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