On this week’s Priorities Podcast, we’re joined by Mark Lindeman, the policy and strategy director of election nonprofit group Verified Voting, to discuss the final passage of a piece of legislation in Maryland that would require the state to conduct a post-election, risk-limiting audit process after each statewide election.

The legislation also allows for the audits, which Lindeman’s organization says are highly effective methods to ensure correct election results and increase public trust in elections, to be done via an automated software after a statewide election. But Lindeman tells StateScoop that with software audits, “it's important to go beyond the software. It's important to get human eyes on the ballots and to have a check that doesn't depend on the software working correctly.”