An Act protecting elections using risk-limiting audits

This bill requires Massachusetts to conduct risk-limiting audits after every regular state primary and biennial election to verify the accuracy of vote counts. The process involves randomly selecting specific ballots or precincts for manual counting in a public setting, continuing until there is strong statistical evidence that the reported results are correct. If the manual count of these selected units reveals a different winner than the machine tabulation, the official results will be updated based on the full manual tally. The law mandates that the selection of ballots be random and observable by the public, and all audit results must be published online within 48 hours of completion.