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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.

CEIMN Press Release, 11/22/2022
Forty nonpartisan observers from Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and the League of Women Voters Minnesota observed the 2022 PER in 11 Minnesota counties. Observers reported that there were not sufficient discrepancies to trigger further reviews in any of the 11 counties. Full press release here.

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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. 

Download our Recount Principles and Best Practices document (pdf)

This document addresses a wide range of recount topics, including initiating mechanisms, funding, transparency, impartiality, counting methods, targeted recounts, and rules for determining voter intent.

CEIMN convened four nationally recognized, bipartisan authors and a blue-ribbon panel of advisors to distill their extensive recount experience into key principles and best practices. The authors of Recount Principles and Best Practices are:

• Mark Ritchie, Minnesota Secretary of State, who chaired the five-person State Canvassing Board that oversaw the 2008 U.S. Senate recount     
• Sam Reed, former Washington Secretary of State, who oversaw the 2004 Washington gubernatorial recount     
• Jane Platten, former director of Cuyahoga County Ohio Board of Elections    
• Mark Halvorson, founder of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and creator of the CEIMN searchable database of state recount laws.

The report was reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel of advisors, including election officials, election integrity advocates, journalists, and academics.  “Accurate and verifiable elections are essential for our democracy,” said Minnesota Secretary of State Ritchie. “This document and its recommendations will improve the way state and local election officials conduct recounts.”

CEIMN, a nonpartisan organization, was founded in 2004 to promote verifiable, transparent, and accurate elections. CEIMN has collaborated on other election reports including Principles and Best Practices of Post-Election Audits, released in 2007.