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Assembly hears proposal for post-election manual verification audits of precincts and early-vote results
Summary
An ordinance (No. 2025-59) was presented to require the Canvas Board to perform a manual verification audit of two randomly selected precincts (or the early voting station) and one contested race in each, with a 1% discrepancy threshold aligned to state practice.
Assemblymember Guttenberg presented Ordinance No. 2025-59, which would add a post-election manual verification audit to borough election procedures so results from voting machines are confirmed by hand counts in a small, random sample of precincts and races.
Guttenberg said the proposal would require the borough’s Canvas Board to randomly select two precincts (or the early voting station) and then randomly select a contested race to hand-count across the chosen precinct(s). "At the end of the day... randomly 2 precincts are pulled out and... 2 contested races in those precincts are counted and tabulated against the results from the machine," he said. The stated purpose is to provide a modest,…
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