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Sharper p-Values for Stratified Election Audits

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  • Higgins Michael J.

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Rivest Ronald L.

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Stark Philip B.

    (University of California, Berkeley)

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Vote-tabulation audits can be used to collect evidence that the set of winners of an election (the outcome) according to the machine count is correct — that it agrees with the outcome that a full hand count of the audit trail would show. The strength of evidence is measured by the p-value of the hypothesis that the machine outcome is wrong. Smaller p-values are stronger evidence that the outcome is correct.

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  • Higgins Michael J. & Rivest Ronald L. & Stark Philip B., 2011. "Sharper p-Values for Stratified Election Audits," Statistics, Politics and Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 2(1), pages 1-37, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:statpp:v:2:y:2011:i:1:p:37:n:1
    DOI: 10.2202/2151-7509.1031
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