Title :
A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits
Author :
Lindeman, Mark ; Stark, Philip B.
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;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2012.56
