Verifiable, Transparent, and Accurate Elections
The Recount Laws Database summarizes how recounts work in all 50 states and DC. Search by over 60 recount features to compare statutes, procedures, and administrative rules.
This document addresses a wide range of recount topics, including counting methods, transparency, impartiality, initiating methods, targeted recounts, and rules for determining voter intent. CEIMN convened four nationally recognized, bipartisan authors and a blue-ribbon panel of advisors to create these key principles and best practices.
Just released 11/3/2022
This paper, coauthored by Verified Voting and Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota, describes how audits and recounts work together to bolster public confidence in election results. Elections need both audits and recounts, and they need audits and recounts to work well together.
CEIMN Press Release, 11/22/2022
Forty nonpartisan observers from Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and the League of Women Voters Minnesota observed the 2022 PER in 11 Minnesota counties. Observers reported that there were not sufficient discrepancies to trigger further reviews in any of the 11 counties. Full press release here.