Pennsylvania Elections 101: Voting is over. Audits, certification, and possible recounts are next. ... Counties use a different method to count ballots during the audit than they did originally.

Provisional ballots account for a small fraction of votes in Pennsylvania, but they can be decisive in close races.

While a recount happens in the Pennsylvania Senate race, counties have other post-election responsibilities. ... Elections 101: Voting is over. Audits, certification, and a recount are next.

With millions of Pennsylvania voters heading to the polls on Election Day, ... In this audit, a random sample of paper ballots are compared to totals reported by the vote-counting machines.

Ballot counting in Pennsylvania for the Nov. 5 election has slightly different ... During this audit, county boards of elections pull a random sample of either 2% of all ballots cast ...

The Department of State tested that kind of ballot check in 2020, when it ordered counties to review 45,000 randomly-selected ballots. The audit that year showed evidence that the results were ...

Pennsylvania’s post-election audit process relies largely on manual efforts, with election workers spending weeks after Election Day meticulously hand-counting ballots. The method Pennsylvania uses ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The two audits conducted by the state after every election confirmed that the unofficial results of Pennsylvania's 2024 general election were accurate, Secretary of the ...

Election workers perform a recount of ballots from the recent Pennsylvania Senate race at the Allegheny County Election Division warehouse on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.

Auditor General Tim DeFoor, a Republican running for re-election in the Nov. 5 election, last week launched an audit of Pennsylvania's so-called motor voter system.. The audit comes one year after ...

Pennsylvania has strict measures in place to maintain election integrity, including mandatory audits. All counties must conduct a 2% sample audit of ballots, along with a Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA ...