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Activity Number: 440
Type: Roundtables
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #310226
Title: Auditing Election Results
Author(s): Wendy Rotz*+
Companies: Ernst & Young
Address: 1225 Connecticut Ave, Washington, DC, 20036,
Keywords: election ; audit ; vote ; ballot ; trail ; poll
Abstract:

Voter confidence and transparent elections are essential to modern democracies. A statistical foundation in the development of election auditing procedures would aid transparency and improve voter confidence in election results and the democratic process in the United States and abroad. Statistical issues may include 100% recounts in close elections, random recounts in all elections, paper trails, Six Sigma applications from quality process control, exit polling, and many more. Share ideas concerning statistical methodologies for auditing election results.

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