A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits
Mark A. Lindeman, Philip B. Stark · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2012
Risk-limiting audits provide statistical assurance that election outcomes are correct by manually examining portions of the audit trail-paper ballots or voter-verifiable paper records. This article sketches two types of risk-limiting audits, ballot-polling audits and comparison audits, and gives example computations. These audits do not require in-house statistical expertise.