Does Minnesota Audit our Election Results?

All 87 Minnesota Counties are now conducting Post Election Review audits. The process of auditing the accuracy of the actual vote counting is called the Post-Election Review (PER) in Minnesota. Each county’s PER is open to the public to observe, during which election officials will review the election results returned by the optical scan tabulators. The review is a hand count of the ballots for each eligible election (U.S. President, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative, and Governor) in the randomly selected precincts compared with the results from the tabulators used in those precincts. The results of each PER are posted publicly, and provide a great way to check the accuracy of our voting machines. Watch this Blog for more information as the PERs unfold!

Michelle Witte, Executive Director