Reply #6: reporting standards turn out to be crucial for post-election auditing [View All]

[OnTheOtherHand]

(I know I'm not surprising you) -- so the subject has come up a lot lately, in various forms. Defining and reporting undervotes (or turnout) is one piece of it, but providing timely and usable low-level results is a big project that most jurisdictions botch.

I think Minnesota may do it best. They have precinct-by-precinct results in close to real time on election night. It's a little bit of a hassle, but they use well-defined text-delimited formats. Sounds like NM is almost the opposite of MN ;). But at least, I surmise, there is a single database. In some states you would have to go county by county.