4 papers
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…
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…
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…
Temporal clustering of rotational glitches in the Crab pulsar
Julian Brian Carlin, Andrew Melatos, Damjan Vukcevic
It is an open question whether glitch activity in individual pulsars varies on decadal time-scales. The Crab pulsar has experienced 23 spin-up glitches in the last 36 years, interr…