Michigan to Perform ‘Zero-Margin Risk-Limiting' Audit in Antrim County

A worker with the Detroit Department of Elections helps stack empty boxes used to organize absentee ballots after nearing the end of the absentee ballot count at the Central Counting Board in the TCF Center in Detroit, Mich. on Nov. 4, 2020. Elaine Cromie/Getty Images

The Michigan Bureau of Elections announced Wednesday that will conduct a “zero-margin risk-limiting” audit in Antrim County as part of what the state called the “most comprehensive” post-election audit in its history.

According to preliminary plans released by the state’s Bureau of Elections, a long-planned statewide risk-limiting audit will be carried out, as well as a complete zero-margin audit this month in Antrim County—which was flagged last month by GOP officials as having switched 6,000 votes from President Donald Trump to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden before it was corrected.