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Einsteinia's proposal says "The PRECINCT Audit Model examines a small random selection of ballots from ALL precincts,"

This is NOT an audit. It is "post-election voting machine testing" and is NOT a check on the accuracy of any election's vote COUNTS.

Auditing randomly selected ballots does NOTHING to ensure the accuracy of any vote counts because voting machines can trivially be programmed to count accurately except during an actual election, so testing randomly selected ballots "after" an election is useless to ensure vote count accuracy for counts created during an election. Auditing ballots does not check any COUNTS that were created during the election at all.

Someone needs to inform Einsteinia that their audit proposal needs to be modified to be an audit of "vote counts", not "ballots" unless they want the election tamperers to jump for joy if their "audit" proposal passes.

Einsteinia needs to be informed that it would be, alternatively, OK to audit 10% of "machine counts" in every precinct, but NOT "ballots".

However, then they will not be able to independently audit the precinct counts that way, so it is not a preferable plan.

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...An audit never gives a 100% chance of detecting vote miscounts, but it comes pretty close.