Confirming Election Results with Risk-Limiting Audits

Mike Williams, Rice University News, 24 Oct 2022,
via ACM TechNews; 26 Oct 2022

Rice University's Dan Wallach, working with Matthew Bernhard at nonprofit
VotingWorks, found risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can be used to confirm
election outcomes. Bernhard said RLAs offer "a high degree of accuracy and
transparency without the enormous undertaking that is counting every contest
on every ballot by hand." The researchers said most scenarios would fit one
of three RLA levels. Ballot comparison audits, described as most efficient …

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