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most citedConservative statistical post-election audits

54 citations · 74 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CY2026

It Doesn't Take a Thief: Optical-Scan Voting Systems Fail Even Without Adversaries

Aleksander Essex, Philip B. Stark

Optical-scan voting systems and their supporting ecosystem of people, processes, and technology are fallible. While a substantial body of work examines adversarial threats to such…

cs.SE2023

A Declaration of Software Independence

Wojciech Jamroga, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Steve Schneider +2

A voting system should not merely report the outcome: it should also provide sufficient evidence to convince reasonable observers that the reported outcome is correct. Many deploye…

stat.AP2023

Stylish Risk-Limiting Audits in Practice

Amanda K. Glazer, Jacob V. Spertus, Philip B. Stark

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can use information about which ballot cards contain which contests (card-style data, CSD) to ensure that each contest receives adequate scrutiny, witho…

stat.AP2023★ 4 cited

Adaptively Weighted Audits of Instant-Runoff Voting Elections: AWAIRE

Alexander Ek, Philip B. Stark, Peter J. Stuckey +1

An election audit is risk-limiting if the audit limits (to a pre-specified threshold) the chance that an erroneous electoral outcome will be certified. Extant methods for auditing…

stat.AP2023

Overstatement-Net-Equivalent Risk-Limiting Audit: ONEAudit

Philip B. Stark

Card-level comparison risk-limiting audits (CLCAs) heretofore required a CVR for each cast card and a "link" identifying which CVR is for which card -- which many voting systems ca…

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…