Efficient Weighting Schemes for Auditing Instant-Runoff Voting Elections

arXiv:2403.15400v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Various risk-limiting audit (RLA) methods have been developed for instant-runoff voting (IRV) elections. A recent method, AWAIRE, is the first efficient approach that does not require cast vote records (CVRs). AWAIRE involves adaptively weighted averages of test statistics, essentially "learning" an effective set of hypotheses to test. However, the initial paper on AWAIRE only examined a few weighting schemes and parameter settings.
We provide an extensive exploration of schemes and settings, to identify and recommend …

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