To get a voter initiative on a state ballot, petitions that contain at least 250,000 valid voter
Question:
To get a voter initiative on a state ballot, petitions that contain at least 250,000 valid voter signatures must be filed with the Elections Commission. The board then has 60 days to certify the petitions. A group wanting to create a statewide system of anniversal health insurance has just filed petitions with a total of 304,266 signatures. As a first step in the process, the Board selects an SRS of 2000 signature and checks them against local voter lists. Only 1772 of them turn out to be valid.
a) What percent of sample signature are valid?
b) What percent of the petition signatures must be valid in order to have the initiative certified by the Election Commission?
c) What will happen if the Commission commits a Type one error?
d)What will happen if the Commission commits a type two error?