I’m at the Election Verification Network Conference being held in my home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
We’ve heard some great talks on ballot security, usability, Internet voting , election auditing, etc.
I’d like to highlight a talk by Philip Stark on a fairly simple process that states could employ to do a risk limiting post election audit. I’ve provided links below to his slides and papers on this topic.
Today’s slides are here:
http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Seminars/evnLongView12.pdf
http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Seminars/evnGOTA12.pdf
His paper that talks about ballot-polling audits is here:
http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/gentle12.pdf
His paper on evidence-based elections is here:
http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/evidenceVote12.pdf