Confirming Elections

Creating Confidence and Integrity through Election Auditing
2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-34121-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Reihe: Elections, Voting, Technology

This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to learn more about new approaches to improve existing election audit procedures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, T.

Loparo, Kenneth A.

Atkeson, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity Comprehensive Audits Statistical Advances in Election Auditing Confidence in the Electoral System: Why We Do Auditing Summary of Election Audits in California Machines Versus Humans: The Counting and Recounting of Pre-scored Punchcard Ballots The New Mexico Pilot Project Counting the Ballots: A Comparison of Machine and Hand Counts in New Mexico The Cost of Election Audits: Time and Money Public Policy and Election Audits in New Mexico Procedural Audits: Utah and Auditing Elections Auditing in a Vote By Mail Environment Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002 Conclusion: The Future of Election Auditing

Über Autor(innen)

R. MICHAEL ALVAREZProfessor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology, USA.
LONNA RAE ATKESONProfessor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, USA.
THAD E. HALL Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.