
What a risk-limiting election audit actually proves
A risk-limiting audit does not check every ballot — it hand-counts just enough of them to guarantee, with a stated confidence, that a wrong outcome would be caught.
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A risk-limiting audit does not check every ballot — it hand-counts just enough of them to guarantee, with a stated confidence, that a wrong outcome would be caught.

That pothole report you file at 7 a.m. becomes a numbered, routed, and tracked service request — here is the machinery behind the confirmation code.

Media outlets call races on election night, but nothing is official until county canvasses and state certification boards sign off — a process that takes weeks, not hours.