Election Science

Science and God in the election.

Checking election outcome accuracy Post-election audit sampling methods —– Presented at the 81st Annual Southern Political Science Association Conference

Methods for determining post-election audit sampling have been the subject of extensive recent research. This article • provides an overview of post-election audit sampling methods, focusing on risklimiting audits, • advances and improves three methods for calculating risk-limiting election audit samples, showing how to apply precise margin error bounds to improve the accuracy of existing metho...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

Election Systems

The various election systems used throughout the world can be divided into three families: Plurality-Majority, Proportional, and Semi-Proportional. Each family has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. All three families of systems can be used for electing legislative bodies, such as the state legislature, city councils, and school boards. For executive offices, such as governo...

Yale University Department of Computer Science A Robust and Verifiable Cryptographically Secure Election Scheme ( Extended