Reply #77: Because of the nature of DREs allowing for multiple ballots to be

[Land Shark]

served by a single DRE, the most common arrangement of DREs is likely to be one DRE serving multiple precincts, at least that's how it was in my county before we got rid of DREs. This is the fundamental reason why early voting tends to favor (though not control) DREs, because a couple machines can have within them all of a county's ballot forms.

So, auditing a single precinct will not be able to audit even a single machine, if the DRE's capabilities are being used in terms of serving multiple precincts.

Thus, when it is said that this audit feature was vetted with computer scientists" it may be that there was not sufficient consideration of this feature of DREs, because no single DRE will be audited or checked if the jurisdiction decides to use the multiple-ballot features of DREs.