{"id":101,"date":"2017-07-18T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforbetterelections.com\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2021-05-25T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:35:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=101","title":{"rendered":"Risk Limiting Audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b>Risk Limiting Audits<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Risk Limiting Audits (RLAs) can be used to validate results using a small statistical sample of the paper ballots, sometimes less than 1%.<\/li>\n<li>RLAs should be performed routinely after every election.<\/li>\n<li>Fortune 500 companies use similar practices for quality control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Progress in Pennsylvania<\/b><\/h1>\n<p>Citizens for Better Elections has worked in coalition with many local, state, and national groups to win significant victories in Pennsylvania through various campaigns.\u00a0<strong>Your calls and letters made these victories happen!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In February 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.pa.gov\/Pages\/State-Details.aspx?newsid=261\">Wolf Administration required<\/a> that new voting systems in Pennsylvania provide a voter-verifiable paper ballot or paper record of votes cast.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2018, The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.pa.gov\/Pages\/State-Details.aspx?newsid=276\">PA Department of State required<\/a> that counties select new voter-verifiable paper record voting systems by December 31, 2019, in order to improve security and auditability.<\/li>\n<li>In November 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/jillstein\/pages\/29165\/attachments\/original\/1543446617\/Stein._Letter_to_the_Court_with_Settlement_Agreement__dkt_108__11-28-18_%2800356071x9CCC2%29.pdf?1543446617\">Pennsylvania settled an election lawsuit by Jill Stein<\/a> requiring that counties implement voting systems with voter-verifiable paper records of each vote cast\u00a0 by 2020, and that counties use robust pre-certification audits by 2022.\u00a0 Thank you, Jill Stein!<\/li>\n<li>In December 2018, Montgomery County (the 3rd largest county in Pennsylvania) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montcopa.org\/ArchiveCenter\/ViewFile\/Item\/4669?fbclid=IwAR2B7gN6boaC1PzXXJiHaALdfA92ibVyvgwyv-yvabwuYfw-JAaKMVSpLqo\">approved a new contrac<\/a>t for a voter-marked paper ballot system with a verifiable paper trail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>The Work Ahead<\/b><\/h1>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep moving!\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <a href=\"\/?page_id=2\">Join us!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Join our Facebook group: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/CBElections\/\">Citizens for Better Elections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Find us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbelections\">@cbelections<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk Limiting Audits Risk Limiting Audits (RLAs) can be used to validate results using a small statistical sample of the paper ballots, sometimes less than 1%. RLAs should be performed routinely after every election. Fortune 500 companies use similar practices for quality control. Progress in Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Elections has worked in coalition with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risk Limiting Audits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}