An analysis of New South Wales electronic vote counting
Andrew R. Conway, Michelle L. Blom, Lee Naish, Vanessa Teague · Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference · 2016
We re-examine the 2012 local government elections in New South Wales, Australia. The count was conducted electronically using a randomised form of the Single Transferable Vote (STV). It was already well known that randomness does make a difference to outcomes in some seats. We describe how the process could be amended to include a demonstration that the randomness was chosen fairly.