Auditing Australian Senate Ballots
Berj Chilingirian, Zara Perumal, Ronald L. Rivest, Grahame Bowland, Andrew Conway, Philip B. Stark, Michelle Blom, Chris Culnane, Vanessa Teague
arXiv:1610.00127v110 citations
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AI Analysis
This addresses election integrity for Australian electoral authorities, but it is incremental as it applies existing audit methods to a specific context.
The authors argue for auditing Australian Senate paper ballots against published preference data and propose four post-election audit methods, which they have prototyped and tested on 2016 election data.
We explain why the Australian Electoral Commission should perform an audit of the paper Senate ballots against the published preference data files. We suggest four different post-election audit methods appropriate for Australian Senate elections. We have developed prototype code for all of them and tested it on preference data from the 2016 election.