VAULT-Style Risk-Limiting Audits and the Inyo County Pilot
Josh Benaloh, Kammi Foote, Philip B. Stark, Vanessa Teague, Dan S. Wallach · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2021
In 2020, Inyo County, California partnered with nonprofit VotingWorks to pilot the use of the Verifiable Audits Using Limited Transparency technique (called VAULT) to conduct an efficient, privacy-preserving, publicly verifiable risk-limiting audit of seven contests in the November general election. We describe VAULT, the pilot, and the software implementation that made this pilot possible.