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All the more reason why risk-limiting audits [1] should be standard procedure to sanity-check precinct results, especially for thinly-attended elections where f
by the_snooze 4y ago
All the more reason why risk-limiting audits [1] should be standard procedure to sanity-check precinct results, especially for thinly-attended elections where fraud has a bigger impact on the outcome. Unfortunately, these things take time and money, and there's little immediate payoff in doing it, especially in the small elections that need it the most.
[1] https://www.vote.pa.gov/About-Elections/Pages/Post-Election-Audits.aspx https://www.vote.pa.gov/About-Elections/Pages/Post-Election-...
- ravel-bar-foo 4y agoRisk limiting audits as described in your link would only catch ballot miscountings. In this case fraudulent ballots were added to the system, so the RLA result would not show anything suspicious.