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Source for Photo: FILE – Chester County, Pa., election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) The 2024 presidential election is over, but in Harrisburg, employees from the Pennsylvania Department of State used a risk-limiting audit to find out which ballots cast in that election will receive an audit, which involves using ten sided dice to determine that result at random. On Monday, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schimdt talked about how the state of Pennsylvania uses their techniques to certify ballots for a small percent of them to confirm accuracy.