Reply #184: questions regarding this analysis

[Land Shark]

You state things like "a clean audit" and "maybe statewide..." which either presuppose conditions you are not identifying (clean audit) or are too contingent and full of assumptions (statewide).

For example, why would "statewide" be the appropriate level of analysis for a congressional district? State senate? Whatever the MOEs are for a statewide race (only state executive, federal executive and senate races in most states) they will be significantly less able to detect error in a congressional race. (except in those couple states where there's only one congressperson per state and thus congress is a statewide race).

At first glance we tend to think "presidential election", at second glance "federal elections" but at third glance even federal elections are not all statewide (congress). But the audits are suggested to be helpful globally, including as to state races. (the bill says states may request such audits, and proponents assume (whether with good basis or not) that the audits will be done for state races as well, thus providing protection to voters who otherwise would have no confidence their votes were counted in jurisdictions with DREs