Papers, Talks, Video, Legislation and Other Documents on Voting and Election Auditing

Papers

Stark, P.B., 2009. The status and near future of post-election auditing, Working draft.
Stark, P.B., 2009. Efficient post-election audits of multiple contests: 2009 California tests. Refereed paper presented at the 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. (preprint: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1443314)
Hall, J.L., L.W. Miratrix, P.B. Stark, M. Briones, E. Ginnold, F. Oakley, M. Peaden, G. Pellerin, T. Stanionis and T. Webber, 2009. Implementing Risk-Limiting Audits in California, USENIX EVT/WOTE. (preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4691)
Stark, P.B., 2009. Auditing a collection of races simultaneously. http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1422v1
Ash, A., S. Pierson and P.B. Stark, 2009. Thinking outside the urn: Statisticians make their marks on U.S. Ballots. Amstat News, 384. 37–40. (reprint: http://www.amstat.org/outreach/pdfs/SP_ANJun09.pdf)
Miratrix, L.W. and P.B. Stark, 2009. Election Audits using a Trinomial Bound. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 4, 974–981. (preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/trinomial09.pdf)
Stark, P.B., 2009. Risk-limiting post-election audits: P-values from common probability inequalities. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 4, 1005–1014. (preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/pvalues09.pdf)
Stark, P.B., 2009. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4, 708–717. (preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/cast09.pdf)
Stark, P.B., 2008. A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election Audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 982–985. http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1697
Stark, P.B., 2008. Conservative Statistical Post Election Audits. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 550–581. http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4005
Stark, P.B., 2008. Election audits by sampling with probability proportional to an error bound: dealing with discrepancies, working draft.
Aslam, J., R.A. Popa and R.L. Rivest., 2007. On Auditing Elections When Precincts Have Different Sizes.
McCarthy, J., H. Stanislevic, M. Lindeman, A. Ash, V. Addona, & M. Batcher, 2007. Percentage-based versus SAFE Vote Tabulation Auditing: A Graphic Comparison.
Norden, L., A. Burstein, J.L. Hall & M. Chen, 2007. Post-Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections.
Jefferson, D., K. Alexander, E. Ginnold, A. Lehmkuhl, K. Midstokke & P.B. Stark, 2007. Post Election Audit Standards Report—Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California's Manual Count.
Top-to-bottom review of California voting systems and Secretary of State Debra Bowen's decertification/recertification orders.
Saltman, R.G., 1975. Effective use of computing technology in vote-tallying.

Talks

Stark, P.B., 2009. Efficient Post-Election Audits of Multiple Contests: 2009 California Tests, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 20–21 November 2009.
Stark, P.B., 2009. Risk-Limiting Audits, Audit Working Meeting, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA, 23–24 October 2009.
Stark, P.B., 2009. Election Auditing: How Much is Enough?, The Society for Political Methodology 26th Annual Summer Meeting, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 23 July 2009.
Stark, P.B., 2009. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 31 March 2009.
Stark, P.B., 2009. 2008 Risk-limiting Audits in California, Pew Foundation Conference on Election Auditing, Salt Lake City, UT, 23–24 February 2009.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Election Auditing and Nonparametric Confidence Bounds, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 20 November 2008.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2 October 2008.
Stark, P.B., 2008. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing, 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Panel 2008MP04292. Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud. Boston, MA, 28–31 August 2008.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Statistical Audits—Why and how much?, 100th Anniversary Meeting of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, Long Beach, CA, 8–11 July 2008.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Election Auditing: How Much is Enough?, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Annual Meeting of Academic Sponsors and Steering Committee, Berkeley, CA, 7 March 2008.
Stark, P.B., 2007. Statistical audits—why bother?. 2007 Post Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 25–27 October 2007.
Stark, P.B., 2007. Urning Voter Confidence. Department of Mathematics, Reed College, 11 October 2007.

Video

Elections procedures in Washington County, Beaverton, OR, 4 November 2008.
erratic behavior of a WINVote touchscreen electronic voting machine, 4 November 2008.
Lou Dobbs CNN report on hacking electronic voting machines in New Jersey, 20 October 2008.
Bill Moyers interviews Mark Crispin Miller, 17 October 2008.
People & Power–Protecting Democracy, Part I, Part II, 14 October 2008.
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's address to the 2007 Post-Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 27 October 2007.
Arlene Ash at the 2007 Post-Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 27 October 2007.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall at the 2007 Post-Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 27 October 2007.
Mark Lindeman at the 2007 Post-Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 27 October 2007.
Philip B. Stark at the 2007 Post-Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 27 October 2007.
A.J. Feldman, J.A. Halderman and E.W. Felten, Security analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Electronic Voting Machine, 2006.

Legislation

Proposed emergency regulations, California Post-Election Manual Tally, 8 October 2008.
2007 New Jersey law requiring audits of a random sample of precincts