Confirming elections : creating confidence and integrity through election auditing

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Confirming elections : creating confidence and integrity through election auditing

edited by R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Rae Atkeson, and Thad E. Hall

(Elections, voting, technology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to learn more about new approaches to improve existing election audit procedures.

Table of Contents

Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity Comprehensive Audits Statistical Advances in Election Auditing Confidence in the Electoral System: Why We Do Auditing Summary of Election Audits in California Machines Versus Humans: The Counting and Recounting of Pre-scored Punchcard Ballots The New Mexico Pilot Project Counting the Ballots: A Comparison of Machine and Hand Counts in New Mexico The Cost of Election Audits: Time and Money Public Policy and Election Audits in New Mexico Procedural Audits: Utah and Auditing Elections Auditing in a Vote By Mail Environment Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002 Conclusion: The Future of Election Auditing

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