Resources

This issue brief explains the distinct purposes of audits and recounts and how both can contribute to confidence in election outcomes.

This brief explains risk limiting audits, how they differ from fixed-percentage audits, and state adoption trends.

This brief provides a current overview of post-election tabulation audits, state requirements, audit types, and policy considerations.

In this resource, Verified Voting explains why post-election audits of paper ballots provide evidence for election outcomes and opportunities to correct outcomes when needed.

Pew commissioned a 2016 survey of almost 3,000 citizens in five Great Lakes states—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio—as they exited MVAs after completing licensing transactions in order to determine the extent to which their experience complied with the Motor Voter law. Their findings touch on whether voters were offered the opportunity to register to vote or update their registration, how voters registered, and the mean transaction time to register.