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Caroline County elections director outlines RLA steps, new vendor demos and candidate filings

Caroline County Board of Elections · March 13, 2026
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The county election director told the Board of Elections on March 13 that staff are preparing for a state-required risk-limiting audit, public demonstrations of the newly selected ES&S voting system will be held March 232d25, and 29 local candidates filed by the Feb. 24 deadline.

The countys election director told the Caroline County Board of Elections on March 13 that the office is preparing for a newly required risk-limiting audit (RLA) and coordinating public demonstrations of the statewide vendor selected for the next voting system.

"Risk limiting audit ... has to be done prior to our state certification of the election results," the Election Director said, describing the RLA as distinct from the former 180-day post-election audit window and explaining that the state will select the contest to audit and randomly select memory sticks (batches) using a seed in Arlo software.

The director described operational steps for the RLA: staff will batch selected ballots into…

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