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Election Security
We take the security of our elections extremely seriously. Learn more below about the rigorous safeguards we use to ensure election integrity, from having bipartisan teams of judges perform every ballot processing task, to welcoming representatives from each campaign to observe our processes at any time, to pre-election testing and post-election audits.
Key safeguards
View the security measures (PDF) we take at various stages of the process.
Video explainers
These additional videos explain how some of our security measures work in practice:
- Drop box security
- Signature verification
- Ballot Counting
- Post-election audit
- What does it mean to be an Election judge?
See the process for yourself!
In this full-length video, former Clerk and Recorder George Stern walks viewers through the steps and security in our ballot processing center, and takes live questions.