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There are simple enough statistical tests that could provide hints (or not) of tampering activities: risk limited audits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-lim
by JPLeRouzic 9y ago
There are simple enough statistical tests that could provide hints (or not) of tampering activities: risk limited audits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_audit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_audit
- npiazza83 9y agoYou know, I've been a huge proponent for a long time that this should be an integral component to institute in tandem with online voting. With as much focus as you find in politics on polling, data driven results, and analytics I can't help but believe that when politicians say, "America isn't ready for online voting" and hold up failed efforts at perfect security what they really mean is, "I don't know if the demographic shift that will result will benefit incumbents."
- mjw1007 9y agoThat page describes ways to manually recount votes that were cast. But the article suggests that the tampering might have been in the voter registration databases, so that people would wrongly be refused the opportunity to cast a vote.