SANTA ANA, Calif.—Two days after the 2022 statewide Primary Election, the Orange County Registrar of Voters began conducting a series of post-election tests and audits to ensure “fair and accurate” results, officials said.
“We go beyond what is required in statute and conduct additional audits and testing to ensure every piece of our voting system is secure and recording votes as voters intended,” Bob Page, Registrar of Voters, said in a statement.
The audits entail Registrar officials to use two methods of randomly selecting a subset of ballots, as required by California’s 1 percent manual tally law, which requires all county election officials to randomly select and hand count 1 percent of all precincts after each election….