November 16, 2023 - Harrisburg, PA
To continue Governor Shapiro's commitment to transparency about election administration in the Commonwealth, the Department of State live streamed the process to randomly select batches of ballots from the Nov. 7, 2023, municipal election that will be audited as part of Pennsylvania's third statewide risk-limiting audit (RLA)."National experts consider RLAs the highest standard of comprehensive election audits," Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said. "The RLA process provides a statistically sound method for confirming, with a high degree of confidence, that the reported outcome of the audited election is accurate."During the livestream, 10 Department employees took turns rolling 10-sided dice. The numbers they rolled generated a random 20-digit "seed number." That seed number will be used to determine which batches of ballots counties will audit over the next few days.Speakers Include:Al Schmidt - Secretary of the CommonwealthJonathan Marks - Deputy Secretary for Elections