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Expert John Drozd tells committee forensic post‑election audits are needed, criticizes risk‑limited audits
Summary
John Drozd, an independent scientist, testified that meaningful post‑election forensic audits are essential for election integrity and argued that risk‑limited audits (RLAs) are insufficient. Committee chair signaled interest in exploring more thorough audits.
John Drozd, a physicist who said he led a team of volunteer experts who analyzed 2020 election data, told the House Committee on Election Integrity that meaningful post‑election forensic audits are essential to establish highly accurate election results and that risk‑limited audits (RLAs) are insufficient by themselves.
Drozd described three categories of election inaccuracies—voter, machine and process—and said partial forensic work in 2020 uncovered problems in each category in different states. He cited a post‑election review in Nevada that his presentation characterized as identifying about 1,500 votes recorded for people listed as deceased, 4,000 votes by noncitizens, 8,000 votes from nonexistent…
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