The Rhode Island Board of Elections on Thursday announced that it has completed its post-election Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) of the 2024 General Election results, and found no discrepancies.
The RLA is a legally required process, conducted by Board staff to verify the accuracy of election outcomes.
“The Board of Elections utilizes risk limiting audits to ensure that there are no discrepancies in Rhode Island’s election results,” said Miguel Nunez, Executive Director of the Board of Elections. “The completion of the risk limiting-audit with the result of no discrepancies found should give Rhode Island voters confidence in our state’s election system and the accuracy of 2024 General Election results. I want to thank our dedicated Board of Elections staff for completing this post-election audit in a transparent and timely fashion.”
Although Rhode Island’s voting system is tested thoroughly and publicly prior to each election, RLAs provide an additional verification of the accuracy of the voting system after the election. Such verification relies heavily on paper ballots, which Rhode Island has utilized to record every vote cast in the state over the past two decades.
RLAs are designed to detect irregularities which may include intentional cyberattacks, or something as simple as an unintentional printing or programming error that could change the reported election outcomes.
Results of the 2024 General Election RLA are available here: https://elections.ri.gov/elections/risk-limiting-audit-center.
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