English

Auditing Australian Senate Ballots

Cryptography and Security 2016-11-08 v1 Computers and Society

Abstract

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.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.00127,
  title  = {Auditing Australian Senate Ballots},
  author = {Berj Chilingirian and Zara Perumal and Ronald L. Rivest and Grahame Bowland and Andrew Conway and Philip B. Stark and Michelle Blom and Chris Culnane and Vanessa Teague},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00127},
  year   = {2016}
}
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