Election Auditing Resources
If you are an ASA member interested in working on election issues, contact the ASA’s director of science policy.
Election Auditing-General
ASA Actions and News
Other Resources
Articles About Auditing and Election-Related Topics
Election Auditing-Methods
Variable Sample-Size Audits
- “Implementing Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits in California” (PDF download), by Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Luke W. Miratrix, Philip B. Stark, Melvin Briones, Elaine Ginnold, Freddie Oakley, Martin Peaden, Gail Pellerin, Tom Stanionis, and Tricia Webber
- “A Simple Rule of Thumb for Election Audit Size Determination” (PDF download), by Ronald Rivest
- “On Estimating the Size and Confidence of a Statistical Audit” (PDF download), by Javed A. Aslam, Raluca A. Popa, and Ronald L. Rivest
- “On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes” (PDF download), by Javed A. Aslam, Raluca A. Popa, and Ronald L. Rivest
- “Percentage-Based versus Statistical-Power-Based Vote Tabulation Audits” (PDF download), by John McCarthy, Howard Stanislevic, Mark Lindeman, Arlene Ash, Vittorio Addona, and Mary Batcher; longer version: “Percentage-Based versus SAFE Vote Tabulation Auditing: A Graphic Comparison” (PDF download)
- “A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election Audits” (PDF download), by Philip Stark
- “Election Audits by Sampling with Probability Proportional to an Error Bound: Dealing with Discrepancies” (PDF download), by Philip Stark
- Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, a seminar by Philip Stark at Kansas State Department of Statistics
Fixed-Percentage Audits
Method-General
Report and Analysis of the 2006 Post-Election Audit of Minnesota’s Voting Systems (PDF download), by Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota