Single-ballot risk-limiting audits using convex optimization

  • Authors:
  • Stephen Checkoway;Anand Sarwate;Hovav Shacham

  • Affiliations:
  • UC San Diego;UC San Diego;UC San Diego

  • Venue:
  • EVT/WOTE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Electronic voting technology/workshop on trustworthy elections
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We take an information-theoretic approach to sequential election auditing. By comparing how far an empirical distribution of audited votes diverges from any distribution in which the reported outcome is incorrect, we gain a high degree of confidence in the outcome when our procedure confirms the reported results.