{"id":146256,"date":"2025-11-19T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146256"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:19:16","slug":"northampton-county-municipal-general-election-audit-official-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=146256","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Municipal General Election Audit & Official Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official Results for the November 4, 2025 Municipal General Election https:\/\/www.norcopa.gov\/election-result<\/a><\/p>\n[Northampton County, PA]\u00a0\u2013 The Northampton County Elections Office successfully conducted two types of post-election audits.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania law requires counties to perform a 2% statistical sample audit. The statistical recount is a random sample of at least 2%\u00a0of the ballots cast or 2,000 ballots, whichever number is fewer. The recount is conducted using manual, mechanical, or electronic devices of a type different than those used for the specific election.<\/p>\n

The Northampton County Elections Office randomly selects four precincts within each four county council districts to meet the 2%. The final precincts that were selected are Bethlehem City 14-6, Palmer Middle 1, Freemansburg, and Moore Township Beersville.<\/p>\n

The ballots were run through the DS450 scanner to make sure the results matched the initial count.<\/p>\n

The Department of State also selected Northampton County at random to participate in a Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) for the Justice of the Superior Court race.<\/p>\n

The Department of State randomly selects counties to participate in the post-election RLA, and also randomly selects the statewide race for the RLA. Northampton County was randomly selected on Monday, November 17th.<\/p>\n

The RLA is a procedure that uses\u00a0statistical methods to confirm election outcomes and to detect possible interference. RLAs examine a random sample of paper ballots, comparing the votes on paper to the totals reported by the vote-counting machines to ensure that the reported outcome of the contest being audited is correct.<\/p>\n

The Department of State selects the random batch of ballots for the RLA. The batch of mail-in ballots and one machine canister were counted by hand tally for one candidate for Justice of the Superior Court retention question.<\/p>\n

The 2% audit was conducted during the canvass, which was open to the public and media.<\/p>\n

Information provided to TVL by:
\nNorthampton County<\/p>\n

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Official Results for the November 4, 2025 Municipal General Election https:\/\/www.norcopa.gov\/election-result [Northampton County, PA]\u00a0\u2013 The Northampton County Elections Office successfully conducted two types of post-election audits. Pennsylvania law requires counties … Continue reading Northampton County Municipal General Election Audit & Official Results<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}