Auditing Australian Senate Ballots

Auditing Australian Senate Ballots

We explain why the Australian Electoral Commission should perform an audit of the paper Senate ballots against the published preference data files. We suggest four different post-election audit methods appropriate for Australian Senate elections. We have developed prototype code for all of them and...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2016-10
Hauptverfasser: Chilingirian, Berj, Perumal, Zara, Rivest, Ronald L, Bowland, Grahame, Conway, Andrew, Stark, Philip B, Blom, Michelle, Culnane, Chris, Teague, Vanessa
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Sprache:eng
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Elections
Politics
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Zusammenfassung:We explain why the Australian Electoral Commission should perform an audit of the paper Senate ballots against the published preference data files. We suggest four different post-election audit methods appropriate for Australian Senate elections. We have developed prototype code for all of them and tested it on preference data from the 2016 election.
ISSN:2331-8422