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Bipartisan Post-Election Risk-Limiting Audit of Colorado’s 2024 Presidential Primary Election Complete
Denver, March 25, 2024 - Colorado’s Bipartisan Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) of the 2024 Presidential Primary Election is complete. The Secretary of State’s office worked with Colorado’s county clerks to complete a bipartisan risk-limiting audit that verified the results of the election, after which each county’s bipartisan canvass board certified the election results. The canvass boards then submitted the final results to the Secretary of State’s office.
“Colorado’s bipartisan audit boards did another fantastic job running the Risk Limiting Audit,” said Secretary Griswold. “Colorado is the best place to be a voter, and the Risk Limiting Audit is an important tool in ensuring transparency and verifying our elections.”
The Risk Limiting Audit is a test that bipartisan election judges conduct to make sure ballots were tabulated correctly according to the intent of the voters who cast them. A Risk Limiting Audit gives a statistical level of confidence that the outcome of an election is correct.
The Bipartisan Risk-Limiting Audit began with the selection of races in each county as well as statewide races to be audited on March 7. Following that selection, a 20-digit random seed was generated on March 18. That seed was entered into a pseudo-random number generator incorporated in the Secretary of State’s open-source RLA software, which resulted in a selection of individual ballots for each county to examine and audit. This process, which is both truly random and replicable, ensures the statistical validity of the audit.
Colorado’s first statewide RLA was conducted after the 2017 Coordinated Election. Risk-Limiting audits are considered by election experts to be the highest standard post-election audits. To learn more about Risk-Limiting Audits in Colorado, please visit www.GoVoteColorado.gov.
