DocumentCode
1479788
Title
A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits
Author
Lindeman, Mark ; Stark, Philip B.
Volume
10
Issue
5
fYear
2012
Firstpage
42
Lastpage
49
Abstract
Risk-limiting audits provide statistical assurance that election outcomes are correct by manually examining portions of the audit trail-paper ballots or voter-verifiable paper records. This article sketches two types of risk-limiting audits, ballot-polling audits and comparison audits, and gives example computations. These audits do not require in-house statistical expertise.
Keywords
government data processing; risk analysis; security of data; statistical analysis; ballot-polling audit; comparison audit; election outcome; paper ballot; risk-limiting audit; statistical assurance; voter-verifiable paper record; Electronic voting; Nominations and elections; Privacy; Security; Sequential analysis; election integrity; election verification; hypothesis tests; sequential sampling;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Security & Privacy, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1540-7993
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSP.2012.56
Filename
6175884
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