An Act protecting elections using risk-limiting audits

This bill mandates that the state secretary conduct risk-limiting audits for major state and federal elections, including contests for president, governor, and state representatives. The process involves randomly selecting ballots or precincts to be manually counted in public view to statistically verify that the electronic vote tabulation results are correct. If the manual count of selected units does not provide strong evidence that the reported outcome is accurate, the audit must continue until either a full manual tally is completed or statistical certainty is reached. The results of these audits will be published online within 48 hours, and any official results determined by a full manual tally will replace the initial electronic counts.