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Until 2017, however, we were one of the few states that did not audit election results.\r\n\r\nIn 2017, Common Cause Rhode Island led the effort to pass legislation requiring risk-limiting audits, the \u201cgold standard\u201d of election audits. Rhode Island became only the second state in the nation to require statewide risk-limiting audits after every general election. We led the implementation effort in 2019 helping produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/rhode-island\/press-release\/new-report-details-rhode-islands-risk-limiting-audit-tests-to-identify-best-system-for-2020-election\/\">the most comprehensive report ever published on risk-limiting audit pilots<\/a>. 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