Mississippi - Mississippi Secretary of States Office
Program Title
Mississippi Post-Election Procedural Audit
Program Summary
The Mississippi Secretary of State's Office has implemented post-election procedural audit procedures to audit the following four categories: 1) Procedures for testing of optical mark (OMR) equipment before counting ballots, including the ballots used for testing of OMR equipment; 2) Ballot accounting reports, seal logs, poll books, and receipt books; 3) Absentee ballots, absentee ballot applications, and absentee ballot envelopes, along with the list provided to the resolution board, to ensure appropriate processing and counting of absentee ballots; and 4) Affidavit ballots and affidavit ballot envelopes, including affidavit ballot receipt books to ensure compliance with appropriate processing and counting of ballots.?This audit program allows the Secretary of State to audit county procedures for compliance with federal and state law to ensure that elections are?being?conducted?properly and?accurately,?while identifying issues before they could possibly be called into question.?The Secretary of State can also take lessons learned and best practices from each county and integrate these findings into trainings for other local election officials to improve elections across Mississippi.