risk-limiting audits of results of elections (a) Availability of grants The Commission shall make a grant to each eligible State to conduct risk-limiting audits as described in subsection (b) with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2018 and each succeeding election for Federal office. (b) Risk-Limiting audits described In this part, a risk-limiting audit is a manual tally of certain marked paper ballots cast in an election which is conducted in accordance with an audit protocol that— (1) makes use of statistical methods and is designed to limit to acceptable levels the risk of certifying a preliminary election outcome that is inconsistent with the election outcome that would be obtained by conducting a full recount