Glossary term

Annulment

Definition

A court or authority setting aside an election result. It can follow from procedural violations without any finding that the outcome was falsified.

See also

Risk-limiting audit
A statistical post-election check that hand-counts a sample of paper ballots to give high confidence the reported winner is correct.

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