Abstract Risk-limiting audits (RLAs), an ingredient in evidence-based elections, are
increasingly common. They are a rigorous statistical means of ensuring that electoral results …

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 instant …

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are an increasingly important method for checking that the
reported outcome of an election is, in fact, correct. Indeed, their use is increasingly being …

Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) can provide routine, affirmative evidence that reported election
outcomes are correct by checking a random sample of cast ballots. An efficient RLA requires …

We show that in Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) elections it is often possible to violate the secret
ballot. There are so many ways to rank even a handful of candidates that most possible …

In 2020, Inyo County, California partnered with nonprofit VotingWorks to pilot the use of the
Verifiable Audits Using Limited Transparency technique (called VAULT) to conduct an …

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 complex …

Recent years have seen the rise of nation-state interference in elections across the globe,
making the ever-present need for more secure elections all the more dire. While certain …

AWAIRE is one of two extant methods for conducting risklimiting audits of instant-runoff
voting (IRV) elections. In principle AWAIRE can audit IRV contests with any number of …

Various risk-limiting audit (RLA) methods have been developed for instant-runoff voting
(IRV) elections. A recent method, AWAIRE, is the first efficient approach that does not require …