3 papers
cs.CY2021
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…
cs.CY2020
Random errors are not necessarily politically neutral
Michelle Blom, Andrew Conway, Peter J. Stuckey +2
Errors are inevitable in the implementation of any complex process. Here we examine the effect of random errors on Single Transferable Vote (STV) elections, a common approach to de…
cs.CY2020
You can do RLAs for IRV
Michelle Blom, Andrew Conway, Dan King +4
The City and County of San Francisco, CA, has used Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for some elections since 2004. This report describes the first ever process pilot of Risk Limiting Au…