Browsing Publications and Working Papers by Subject "Auditing elections"
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On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-04-29)We address the problem of auditing an election when precincts may have different sizes, and suggest methods for picking a sample of precincts to audit that takes precinct size into account. one method yields optimal auditing ... -
On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2007-04-22)We consider the problem of statistical sampling for auditing elections, and we develop a remarkably simple and easily-calculated upper bound for the sample size necessary for determining with probability at least c whether ...