Lazy Risk-Limiting Ballot Comparison Audits. (arXiv:2202.02607v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are rigorous statistical procedures meant to
detect invalid election results. RLAs examine paper ballots cast during the
election to statistically assess the possibility of a disagreement between the
winner determined by the ballots and the winner reported by tabulation. The
most ballot efficient approaches proceed by "ballot comparison." However,
ballot comparison requires an untrusted declaration of the contents of each
cast ballot, rather than a simple tabulation of vote totals. This "cast-vote
record table" (CVR) is then …

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