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Given enough different tests, it is virtually certain that the data will fail at least one. The implication for election forensics is that if we use a suite of many tests to examine election results, the chance that at least one test will flag the results as suspicious may be large, even if the election is “clean” and each test is individually unlikely to raise a false alarm.