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Maryland conducts first statewide audit of election results

Written by Clear Ballot | Dec 9, 2016 4:57:00 AM

By Mindy Moretti, ElectionLine: "At a recent elections-related conference, when the topic of the reliability of the elections process came up, one Maryland county official remarked that local and county elections officials are always auditing. 

They audit results, they audit registration databases, you name it, they audit it and they are doing it all the time.

This November Maryland took that one step further and became the first known state to conduct a statewide independent automated audit of their November general election."

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