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Cherokee County elections board approves pre‑certification audit for June Public Service Commission race
Summary
The Cherokee County Board of Elections voted unanimously to conduct a random, pre‑certification audit of at least 10% of ballots (capped at 500) for the June 17 Public Service Commission contest; the audit will be held at the Election Office and open to monitors and the public.
The Cherokee County Board of Elections voted unanimously to conduct a pre‑certification audit of the June 17 Public Service Commission contest, setting a minimum sample of 10 percent of ballots and capping the count at 500 votes.
Board member John moved the audit and Scott seconded; the motion as clarified by the board requires randomly selected precinct tabulator batches and mail‑in ballot batches to be drawn “out of a fishbowl” and counted in full until the sample exceeds 10 percent, with the process stopping once the threshold is reached. The board also specified that the action “only applies to this election.”
Board members said the audit is intended as an extra verification step to compare the paper ballots to the machine tape before formal certification,…
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