Risk-limiting audits consider contest margins and errors discovered by the audit, yielding a minimum of missing incorrect outcome, called a “risk limit.” You start with the assumption that there must be an incorrect outcome, and you audit until you disprove it or correct it. If you go through the first round and have found enough discrepancies that haven’t met the risk limit, then you conduct a second round, and continue conducting rounds until we meet the risk limit. The ballots are compared with the sample of the reported winner instead of the voting system.
The main function is to disprove the possibility of a inaccurate vote count, and find a way to validate the reported winner.So if, in fact. the vote count is actually inaccurate and the reported winner is not the actual winner there isn’t any possible way of finding out. This doesn’t validate the actual results. It’s a “work around'” from proving the vote count is correct and the reported winner is actually the winner.Basically whoever has the most votes, legit or not, at the time of the audit, is guaranteed to be the winner every time.
If the election official is a Democrat, they will not run the audit until the Democrat candidate has more reported votes then the opposition.
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Nice touch. I'll remember to do that in the future