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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Blom, Michelle
• Stark, Philip B.
• Stuckey, Peter J.
• Teague, Vanessa
• Vukcevic, Damjan

Titel

Auditing Hamiltonian Elections

Ist Teil von

• Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2021 International Workshops, p.235-250

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Presidential primaries are a critical part of the United States Presidential electoral process, since they are used to select the candidates in the Presidential election. While methods differ by state and party, many primaries involve proportional delegate allocation using the so-called Hamilton method. In this paper we show how to conduct risk-limiting audits for delegate allocation elections using variants of the Hamilton method where the viability of candidates is determined either by a plurality vote or using instant runoff voting. Experiments on real-world elections show that we can audit primary elections to high confidence (small risk limits) usually at low cost.