docs: explain ballot multiplicity in offline audits - #2367
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Offline ballot-polling jurisdictions can silently undercount results if they don't realize a ballot drawn more than once must have its votes counted for each draw. The retrieval list only hints at this via comma-joined ticket numbers, the "Ballots to audit" figure shown to jurisdiction admins is the unique-ballot count rather than the weighted sample size, and offline-results validation only checks an upper bound, so an undercount passes silently. This doc is a stopgap pending a real UI fix (votingworks#779).
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docs/offline-audits.md, explaining ballot multiplicity for jurisdictions running offline ballot-polling audits.Ballot-polling samples are drawn with replacement, so a physical ballot can be drawn more than once in a round. Today:
There's currently no documentation anywhere explaining this. This doc is a stopgap while the underlying product gap (a real multiplicity column on the retrieval list, and/or surfacing the weighted sample size in the UI) is tracked in #779.
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