Risk limiting audit results from PRIMARY in Pennsylvania - one batch showed half of the votes had not been counted [View all]

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Was looking to see if the risk limiting audits were done yet for Pennsylvania. They haven’t been (tomorrow they report ), but i looked at the ones for the primary race in April.

I would expect that out of roughly 60 batches/precincts that are run through scanners in an audit you might find one or two batches that are off by 1 or 2 votes. And indeed there were 2 batches which are discrepant. One by just one vote, but the other showed that half of its votes weren’t counted.

The race chosen was treasurer, and the results of the Pennsylvania risk limiting audit shows this:

Allegheny county, Franklin Pk Ward 3 Dist 1 - 1
Audit: RYAN BIZZARRO: 29; ERIN MCCLELLAND: 36
Reported: RYAN BIZZARRO: 14; ERIN MCCLELLAND: 17
Net: RYAN BIZZARRO: -15; ERIN MCCLELLAND: -19 -4

Just thought it was interesting. The conclusion drawn was that it has minimal effect because the net votes was -4. But If similar results appear this time in a down ballot race, i’d want to understand the mechanism and implications for the top of the ticket.