Where Is The Very Best Audit

A pilot program for conducting risk-limiting audits will be conducted in November 2020 and each county clerk must conduct a risk-limiting audit beginning in 2022. Nevada previously had a traditional post-election audit in place. October 12, 2020 and October 25, 2020. Totals include candidate, party, and group-sponsored ads. Spending covers April 4 to October 24, 2020 for Facebook and Google. Digital spending figures come from the Facebook ad library reports. Spending covers September 4 to October 24, 2020. Candidate spending numbers include spending by official campaign committees, leadership PACs, and joint fundraising committees. Table 1 shows Biden campaign spending on advertising across TV, digital and radio at nearly $564.7 million versus $426.3 million in Trump campaign spending. Figure 2 shows the number of broadcast television ads aired by media market in federal races in both 2016 and 2020 for the post-Labor Day period, which represents the traditional general election campaign. In spite of the rising number of attacks from pro-Trump ads, the campaign in 2020 is ending on a more positive note than the two previous presidential campaigns. By and large, the Biden and Trump campaigns are targeting their Facebook ads in similar states (Figure 4), though it does appear that Biden is emphasizing Pennsylvania and Michigan more than the Trump campaign.


Excluding outside group efforts, Biden has out-aired the Trump campaign on TV in the last two weeks at a nearly four-to-one pace. James Lankford, of Oklahoma, said he would intervene if President Donald Trump's administration does not grant President-elect Joe Biden access to presidential daily intelligence briefings by Friday. A day before Arizona Senate President Karen Fann’s special meeting on the Maricopa County election audit, county officials tried to portray the Republican leader’s effort as amateurish at best. But President Trump has stayed competitive with Joe Biden on digital ads (Table 3). Biden has the edge on Facebook ads since mid-October ($17 million to $14.5 million) and has a large lead on Snapchat, but Trump has spent more on Google by about $7.5 million. In the past two weeks, Biden has dominated broadcast and national cable television spending, as Table 2 shows. Numbers include ads aired on broadcast television and national cable between April 9 and October 25 in each year (left panel) and between September 28 and October 11 in each year (right panel). The Trump campaign has spent a greater percentage of its resources on digital advertising-47 percent versus 29 percent for the Biden campaign-but the Biden campaign has spent considerably more on local cable advertising-15 percent of its total spending versus 3 percent for the Trump campaign.


Candidate spending numbers include spending by official campaign committees, leadership PACs, and joint fundraising committees. Digital and TV spending in U.S. Top issues in U.S. Table 5 shows the top issue mentions of the candidates between October 12 and October 25. COVID-19 is not the top issue for either candidate, even with the recent surge in cases across parts of the country. In general, pro-Biden ads outnumbered pro-Trump ads in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona, while Trump had advantages in Georgia, parts of Iowa, parts of Ohio and parts of North Carolina. Pro-Biden advertising in Miami is actually higher than in Phoenix, but Trump advertising is less than in Phoenix, resulting in a 2.7 to 1 Biden ad advantage in Miami. Phoenix, Arizona, continues to be the top media market for presidential ad airings (Table 4 and Figure 1). Pro-Biden ads outnumber pro-Trump ads two to one in Phoenix. Figure 6 looks at the tone of both pro-Biden and pro-Trump ads week-to-week, with the top panel showing the volume of promotional, contrast and attack ads and the bottom panel showing the percentages of each. In each of these two contests, if no candidate polls over 50 percent on Election Day, there will be a runoff on January 5 between the top two candidates.


Less dramatically, the choice of January 14 also put election day opposite final exams for Taiwanese university students who presumably would be deterred from traveling home to vote and who were generally thought to be pro-DPP (especially the subset of them registered in southern Taiwan but attending university in the north). It also equates to the number of voters eligible to vote in that contest who cast a ballot. When Lewandowski - who is a Windham resident - spoke to Todd’s group on Monday, he was presented with a copy of the lawsuit filed Monday for him to show to Trump. Documents that satisfy Michigan voter identification requirements imposed on all voters must be presented in person at the city or township clerk's office. An image shared on Facebook claims Michigan recently authorized a "full forensic audit" of the 2020 presidential election results. The ratio of pro-Biden to pro-Trump ads is even greater in media markets in Wisconsin and Michigan. And notoriously, Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump by around eight points in June, August and even October of 2016, before she barely squeaked out a two-point edge in the popular vote. "I’ve never seen an ‘audit’ that was remotely similar, and given the fundamental flaws, I don’t think this process can even be described as an audit," he said in an email.