2nd risk-limiting audit being conducted to ensure that all ballots identified, and included in the final tally, are audited.
SANTA ANA, CA - Orange County will conduct a second risk-limiting audit beginning Thursday, June 28, 2018. The second ballot polling audit is not required under California law and is being conducted as an additional pilot to refine our approaches to risk-limiting audits.
Our first risk-limiting audit was conducted on June 11, 2018 and included ballots identified during the random selection. Despite the success of the first audit, we were unable to include all ballots since ballot counting was still underway. This follow up audit will identify a second random batch and will be comprised of ballots that were included in the final tally - ensuring a full and complete risk-limiting audit was conducted.
The risk-limiting audit is a procedure that provides strong statistical evidence that the election outcome is correct, or has a high probability of correcting an outcome that wouldn't match a full hand count of the ballots. The audit itself requires human beings to examine and verify more ballots in close contests and fewer ballots in contests with wider margins.
WHEN:
- Thursday, June 28, 2018 - 10:00am (random seed selected by the rolling of 10-sided die)
WHERE:
- Registrar of Voters, 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building C, Santa Ana, CA
HOW:
- Once the random seed is established the physical pulling of the actual ballots will take place and the manual hand count will begin.