Papers and Talks on Voting and Election Auditing

Papers

• Stark, P.B., 2008. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing.
• Stark, P.B., 2008. A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election Audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, in press.
• Stark, P.B., 2008. Conservative Statistical Post Election Audits. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 550–581. (http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4005)
• Stark, P.B., 2008. Election audits by sampling with probability proportional to an error bound: dealing with discrepancies, working draft.
• Text of the 2007 New Jersey law requiring audits of a random sample of precincts
• Aslam, J., R.A. Popa and R.L. Rivest., 2007. On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes.
• McCarthy, J., H. Stanislevic, M. Lindeman, A. Ash, V. Addona, & M. Batcher, 2007. Percentage-based versus SAFE Vote Tabulation Auditing: A Graphic Comparison.
• Norden, L., A. Burstein, J.L. Hall & M. Chen, 2007. Post-Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections.
• Jefferson, D., K. Alexander, E. Ginnold, A. Lehmkuhl, K. Midstokke & P.B. Stark, 2007. Post Election Audit Standards Report—Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California's Manual Count.
• Top-to-bottom review of California voting systems and Secretary of State Debra Bowen's decertification/recertification orders.
• Saltman, R.G., 1975. Effective use of computing technology in vote-tallying.

Talks

• Stark, P.B., 2008. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, 2 October 2008.
• Stark, P.B., 2008. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing, 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Panel 2008MP04292. Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud. Boston, MA 28–31 August 2008.
• Stark, P.B., 2008. Statistical Audits—Why and how much?, 100th Anniversary Meeting of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, Long Beach, CA, 8–11 July 2008.
• Stark, P.B., 2008. Election Auditing: How Much is Enough?, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Annual Meeting of Academic Sponsors and Steering Committee, Berkeley, CA, 7 March 2008.
• Stark, P.B., 2007. Statistical audits—why bother?. 2007 Post Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 25–27 October 2007.
• Stark, P.B., 2007. Urning Voter Confidence. Department of Mathematics, Reed College, 11 October 2007.

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