2022 General Election Audit Announced

Liz Gullett

Jan 13, 2023

The Michigan Bureau of Elections and bipartisan county and local election clerks will conduct more than 200 public audits of last November’s general election. Precinct-level audits will be conducted by Bureau staff and county clerks to review election administration procedures carried out and identify best practices for future elections. Additionally, the Bureau and dozens of clerks will participate in a statewide audit, in which randomly selected batches of ballots will be hand-counted to affirm the accuracy of the state’s vote tabulation machines.

The process began this week, when a bipartisan group of election officials met in Lansing to generate a random number, by rolling a 10-sided die, which will be used to determine the batches of ballots that will be hand counted in the statewide audit.

In the weeks that follow, local election officials will hand county dozens of batches of ballots from jurisdictions across the state. The results will then be compared to the machine tally from the corresponding precinct.

The Bureau expects all audits to be completed by February 17 and results will subsequently be shared with the Board of State Canvassers in a public meeting.

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