Jordan Wilkie, Carolina Public Press – This fall, North Carolina will pilot a new kind of post election audit, the gold-standard method to ensure the candidate declared the winner in a race actually received the most votes. The action is the first step in a likely years-long process of improving the state’s postelection audit strategies. Currently, the state uses a “sample audit,” whereby election officials hand-recount two random precincts to make sure the results are right.

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