Organizing and Automating Poll Tape Auditing

(Part 3 of a 3-part series) In previous articles in this series, I’ve explained that any member of the public can witness the poll tapes printed by voting machines when the polls close—in at least 30 states. Other states have more restrictive rules. To make this practice effective, we need these three things: Election officials should promptly publish election results, broken down by polling place, in a format that makes it possible to compare with poll tapes. There should be a clear and underst...