Question of the Week - How do I know that my vote will be counted properly?

How do I know that my vote will be counted properly?

The counting process is a little more complicated than in past elections. The City of Minneapolis Elections Department has developed procedures to ensure that all votes will be counted properly. First, your vote will never be distributed to a candidate that you did not rank. Your vote will only be distributed to candidates that you do rank.

Second, the counting procedures have numerous redundancies to ensure that any counting errors are caught and corrected immediately. The voter error accounting, counting, and sorting are all done by different teams of election judges. Each team that handles ballots is made up of two judges from different political parties. Even the data entry and simple math needed to identify the winner is done by two separate teams of election judges.

It is important to remember that the vote count will always be open for observation by the public. All of the round-by-round results will be released to the public as they are available. In addition, at the end of the count, voters will know how every ballot in the City was marked.