Verifiable, Transparent, and Accurate Elections
The Recount Laws Database summarizes how recounts work in all 50 states and DC. Search by over 60 recount features to compare statutes, procedures, and administrative rules.
This document addresses a wide range of recount topics, including counting methods, transparency, impartiality, initiating methods, targeted recounts, and rules for determining voter intent. CEIMN convened four nationally recognized, bipartisan authors and a blue-ribbon panel of advisors to create these key principles and best practices.
Just released 11/3/2022
This paper, coauthored by Verified Voting and Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, describes how audits and recounts work together to bolster public confidence in election results. Elections need both audits and recounts, and they need audits and recounts to work well together.
In 2022, CEIMN partnered with the League of Women Voters Minnesota to organize an observation of the post-election review (PER) and report its results. This report includes a detailed summary of the PER results, information on the observation, and recommendations for improvement of the audit process.
Increasingly, local election authorities are turning to ballot marking devices or recommitting to paper ballots marked by hand. In 2022, 92.2 percent of voters will live in a jurisdiction using one of these voting methods.
Votebeat
By Jen Fifield, May 23, 2022
Bill passed with bipartisan support my lead to burdensome number of recounts, add to election costs and delay final results, experts warn.
Huffington Post
11/3/2012
by Mark Halvorson & Barbara Simon
We risk an election meltdown worse than the Florida 2000 debacle when the presidential election came down to hanging chads and chaos. This time we are looking at another razor close result and perhaps another recount.
In 2022, CEIMN partnered with the League of Women Voters Minnesota to organize an observation of the post-election review (PER) and report its results. This report includes a detailed summary of the PER results, information on the observation, and recommendations for improvement of the audit process.
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Just released 11/3/2022
This paper, coauthored by Verified Voting and Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, describes how audits and recounts work together to bolster public confidence in election results. Elections need both audits and recounts, and they need audits and recounts to work well together.