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20202025
most citedAuditing Hamiltonian Elections

8 citations

6 papers

q-bio.GN2025★ 1 cited

ChloroScan: Recovering plastid genome bins from metagenomic data

Yuhao Tong, Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino, Robert Turnbull +1

Genome-resolved metagenomics has contributed largely to discovering prokaryotic genomes. When applied to microscopic eukaryotes, challenges such as the high number of introns and r…

stat.AP2022★ 3 cited

Ballot-Polling Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections with a Dirichlet-Tree Model

Floyd Everest, Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark +3

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is used in several countries around the world. It requires voters to rank candidates in order of preference, and uses a counting algorithm that is more…

cs.CY2021★ 3 cited

A First Approach to Risk-Limiting Audits for Single Transferable Vote Elections

Michelle Blom, Peter J. Stuckey, Vanessa Teague +1

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are an increasingly important method for checking that the reported outcome of an election is, in fact, correct. Indeed, their use is increasingly being…

cs.CY2021

Assertion-Based Approaches to Auditing Complex Elections, with Application to Party-List Proportional Elections

Michelle Blom, Jurlind Budurushi, Ronald L. Rivest +4

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs), an ingredient in evidence-based elections, are increasingly common. They are a rigorous statistical means of ensuring that electoral results are correc…

cs.CY2021★ 8 cited

Auditing Hamiltonian Elections

Michelle Blom, Philip B. Stark, Peter J. Stuckey +2

Presidential primaries are a critical part of the United States Presidential electoral process, since they are used to select the candidates in the Presidential election. While met…

stat.AP2020★ 6 cited

A Unified Evaluation of Two-Candidate Ballot-Polling Election Auditing Methods

Zhuoqun Huang, Ronald L. Rivest, Philip B. Stark +2

Counting votes is complex and error-prone. Several statistical methods have been developed to assess election accuracy by manually inspecting randomly selected physical ballots. Tw…