Friday, November 06, 2009
Public invited to observe Boulder County's election audit
(Boulder County, Colo.) – Members of the public are invited to observe Boulder County’s state-of-the-art election audit beginning Saturday, Nov. 7 at 1 p.m.
When:
· 1 p.m., Nov. 7: audit setup including selection of contests and ballots
· Starting 9 a.m. each day, Nov. 9-13: conduct manual count
Where:
· Ballot Processing Center, Boulder County Clerk & Recorder’s Office
1750 33rd Street, Boulder
· Contact Jessie Cornelius to attend: 303-413-7766 or email.
The audit is a post-election quality assurance procedure that ensures the accuracy of the machine tally of votes. Results of manually counting a statistical sample of ballots are compared to the machine tally of the same ballots. Discrepancies, if any, are investigated. The final audit report will be issued to the canvass board for verification prior to election certification.
Boulder County’s audit is unique because it includes auditing a wide selection of contests, groups of ballots, and equipment which are all selected at random. The audit is designed to focus audit resources on the contests with smaller margins of victory and less focus on contests with wide margins of victory. The Boulder County Elections Division worked with statisticians from Boulder County and across the United States to develop its enhanced audit process.
Members of the public can review the process and data used in the audit by visiting www.VoteBoulder.org. Members of the public are also invited to nominate additional contests and ballots to be included in the audit. If time allows, the audit will be extended to some of these nominations. Nominations must be submitted to Jessie Cornelius at jcornelius@bouldercounty.org by the close of business on Wednesday, Nov. 11 to be considered.
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Barbara HalpinBoulder County Public Information Officer
BHALPIN@bouldercounty.org
303-441-1622
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