Also called: Risk-Limiting Audit Coordinator, Election Audit Manager
Runs the audits after an election, hand-counting random samples of paper ballots to prove the machine count was right.
After votes are counted, audit specialists use statistics to pick which ballots to pull, then lead teams of bipartisan volunteers who hand-check them in public. If the hand count disagrees too much, the audit grows. They write the official report and explain the math to reporters, candidates, and skeptical voters.
State and county pay; some work for audit nonprofits. Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's degree; statistics and election administration experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Statistics, Political Science, Public Administration, Mathematics.
Growing faster than average. More states now require risk-limiting audits (approx.).
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Audit software picks samples and does the math; running public hand counts and earning trust stay human.
Classes: AP Statistics, Government, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1199.
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