Reply #7: Audits should have to match exactly. [View All]

One vote per precinct might swing a close race. If any discrepancies are found, there must be more auditing until a change in outcome can be ruled out.

The most likely fraud not to be detected at all is concentrated fraud, on a few percent of machines or scanners. But fortunately, this could only swing enough votes to steal a relatively close election.

If random audits are clean, but the margin is close, I think more audits should be done until it's clear that the outcome cannot be changed by undetected discrepancies.

This paper by Kathy Dopp is a good place to start to study the problem and the associated spreadsheet is useful too:

http://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/Paper_Audits.pdf

I don't know why this isn't publicized more but I guess it's not about exit polls so...