Methods for determining post-election audit sampling have been the subject of extensive recent research. This article … (1) provides an overview of post-election audit sampling methods, focusing on risk-limiting audits, (2) advances and … improves three methods for calculating risk-limiting election audit samples, showing how to apply precise margin error bounds …

Current voting systems and procedures used to conduct post-election audits fail to provide reliable assurance of the … accuracy of election results. Several methods have been found that overcome some of the obstacles to auditing caused by various … election system designs. This article provides an overview of the scope and content of post-election auditing practices …

present a conundrum: It may never be known whether an election result is valid unless the paper ballots are manually counted … solution to this problem is to mandate a statistical audit as part of routine election certification processes, with the audit … database. All that is really needed to validate the election is to verify that the ballot database is an accurate …