Matt Blaze on Nostr: The details of risk-limiting audits are too involved to go into here, but the basic ...

The details of risk-limiting audits are too involved to go into here, but the basic idea is that a random sample of ballots are compared, by hand, with the machine interpretation of those ballots. If the machine behaved correctly, after a surprisingly small number of samples, you gain a high (and measurable) degree of confidence in the outcome.