Candidates offer competing plans to make audit findings easier to use

Both candidates addressed how to make dense audit reports useful to Vermonters. Tim Ash said the auditor's office should produce plain‑English summaries, use social media more and create more video summaries so audit findings reach ordinary residents rather than only technical readers. "A broader use of social media is an opportunity... I would prefer to provide summaries by video far more frequently," he said.

Ivar Kronick portrayed his approach as 'radical transparency,' promising to redesign the auditor's website to make reports and recommendations immediately searchable, provide single‑page plain‑language reports by statute and publish a comprehensive glossary to explain legal terms. He said the website should show what has been done, what is in process and what is queued for review.

Both candidates said accessibility matters but differed on implementation: Ash emphasized multimedia and conversational explanation; Kronick emphasized a surgical redesign of the office's public record and naming problematic managers as a compliance lever.