Purpose. The purpose of the post-election verification and audit program is to: Demonstrate and confirm the accuracy of the voting system’s tabulation logic; Ensure that each accepted vote-by-mail ballot and provisional ballot met the acceptance criteria and conversely that rejected ballots did not meet the criteria; and Confirm that the number of ballots cast in a voting center equals the number of voters who checked in to vote at the voting center; Verification and Audit Program. The State Administrator shall establish a post-election verification and audit program for special elections conducted by mail. A local board shall perform the post-election verification and audit developed by the State Administrator.