Close enough for government work: risk-limiting post-election audits
Berkeley-Stanford Joint Colloquium at Stanford
Apr 12, 2011, 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | Sequoia Hall, Room 200 Stanford University | Happening As Scheduled
Philip Stark, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
How can we tell whether voting machines report the right winners of an election? Risk-limiting post election audits can help. Endorsed by the American Statistical Association, Common Cause, The League of Women Voters, and Verified Voting, risk-limiting audits have a guaranteed minimum chance of correcting wrong electoral outcomes. There have been seven risk-limiting audits so far, six in...