Arapahoe County Clerk staffer Caleb Hendrich, left, and U.S. Election Commissioner Matt Masterson begin the process of pulling ballots to be audited at the Arapahoe County election warehouse.
While the word “audit” all by itself doesn’t sound very fun, for the Colorado Secretary of State it’s absolutely celebratory. Following the 2017 off-year election, the state is performing a first-in-the-nation risk-limiting audit of the statewide results.
“We’re here to celebrate the fact that we’ve finally reached this milestone in our nation,” Secretary of State Wayne Williams said.
The idea is to find strong statistical evidence that the election outcome was the correct one.
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