A Unified Evaluation of Two-Candidate Ballot-Polling Election Auditing Methods

Counting votes is complex and error-prone. Several statistical methods have been developed to assess election accuracy by manually inspecting randomly selected physical ballots. Two ‘principled’ methods are risk-limiting audits (RLAs) and Bayesian audits (BAs). RLAs use frequentist statistical infer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huang, Zhuoqun, Rivest, Ronald L, Stark, Philip B., Teague, Vanessa J., Vukcevic, Damjan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129969