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09/16/2023
Stylish Risk-Limiting Audits in Practice
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can use information about which ballot cards...
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07/20/2023
Adaptively Weighted Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections: AWAIRE
An election audit is risk-limiting if the audit limits (to a pre-specifi...
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03/06/2023
Overstatement-Net-Equivalent Risk-Limiting Audit: ONEAudit
Card-level comparison risk-limiting audits (CLCAs) heretofore required a...
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09/08/2022
Ballot-Polling Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections with a Dirichlet-Tree Model
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is used in several countries around the worl...
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08/23/2022
Pay No Attention to the Model Behind the Curtain
Many widely used models amount to an elaborate means of making up number...
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07/07/2022
Sweeter than SUITE: Supermartingale Stratified Union-Intersection Tests of Elections
Stratified sampling can be useful in risk-limiting audits (RLAs), for in...
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07/04/2022
Non(c)esuch Ballot-Level Risk-Limiting Audits for Precinct-Count Voting Systems
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) guarantee a high probability of correcting i...
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06/29/2022
Auditing Ranked Voting Elections with Dirichlet-Tree Models: First Steps
Ranked voting systems, such as instant-runoff voting (IRV) and single tr...
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05/29/2022
Assessing the accuracy of the Australian Senate count: Key steps for a rigorous and transparent audit
This paper explains the main principles and some of the technical detail...
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01/07/2022
ALPHA: Audit that Learns from Previously Hand-Audited Ballots
BRAVO, the most widely tried method for risk-limiting election audits, c...
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07/25/2021
Assertion-based Approaches to Auditing Complex Elections, with application to party-list proportional elections
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs), an ingredient in evidence-based elections, ...
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07/23/2021
RiLACS: Risk-Limiting Audits via Confidence Sequences
Accurately determining the outcome of an election is a complex task with...
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02/17/2021
Auditing Hamiltonian Elections
Presidential primaries are a critical part of the United States Presiden...
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12/06/2020
More style, less work: card-style data decrease risk-limiting audit sample sizes
U.S. elections rely heavily on computers such as voter registration data...
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08/19/2020
A Unified Evaluation of Two-Candidate Ballot-Polling Election Auditing Methods
Counting votes is complex and error-prone. Several statistical methods h...
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04/01/2020
You can do RLAs for IRV
The City and County of San Francisco, CA, has used Instant Runoff Voting...
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11/22/2019
Sets of Half-Average Nulls Generate Risk-Limiting Audits: SHANGRLA
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) for many social choice functions can be redu...
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08/21/2019
There is no Reliable Way to Detect Hacked Ballot-Marking Devices
Election system vendors are marketing ballot-marking devices (BMDs) as a...
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08/14/2019
Risk-Limiting Tallies
Many voter-verifiable, coercion-resistant schemes have been proposed, bu...
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06/02/2019
Confidence Intervals for Selected Parameters
Practical or scientific considerations often lead to selecting a subset ...
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01/10/2019
Auditing Indian Elections
Indian Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be fitted with printers th...
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12/15/2018
Bernoulli Ballot Polling: A Manifest Improvement for Risk-Limiting Audits
We present a method and software for ballot-polling risk-limiting audits...
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10/25/2018
Random Sampling: Practice Makes Imperfect
The pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), sampling algorithms, and al...
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09/18/2018
Random problems with R
R (Version 3.5.1 patched) has an issue with its random sampling function...
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09/12/2018
Risk-Limiting Audits by Stratified Union-Intersection Tests of Elections (SUITE)
Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) offer a statistical guarantee: if a full man...
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03/02/2018