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Hey, Rhody, if you’re watching the protests @RI_BOE where people are questioning the results, there are some things you should know.
Every voter in Rhode Island votes on a hand-marked paper ballot. That means we have a record of every vote cast. Rhode Island is considered a “voter intent” state, so it’s what’s on the ballot that counts.
And thanks to a law passed in 2020 we manually audit the outcome of the election using a risk-limiting audit. That means humans, not machines, examine a sample of ballots to determine whether the election yielded the correct winner.
We are one of only two states that does that audit statewide *before* we certify results. That means if the audit catches an incorrect outcome it will be corrected via a full manual recount before the result is finalized.
The entire process is by design open to the public. You can watch them examine the ballots, read the code of the software used, the whole nine yards.
There is literally only one other state in the nation (Colorado) where voters can have this level of confidence that the election results reveal the actual winner.
That will all happen in a couple of weeks and I hope some of these folks who question the integrity of our election system, and by extension the outcome of our elections, will join me in observing that process.
If you want to learn more we published an 80-page report with the leading scholars on election auditing in the nation. https://www.commoncause.org/rhode-island/press-release/new-report-details-rhode-islands-risk-limiting-audit-tests-to-identify-best-system-for-2020-election/