Confirming elections: creating confidence and integrity through election auditing

Prior to the disputed 2000 presidential election, for most Americans the administration of elections was never a concern. Largely, the administration of elections, the technologies used in the process, and the general procedures usedwere typically of concern only to election officials, candidates running for office and those managing their races, and a very few academics. This volume begins to fill that vacuum by bringing together in one book 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. INDICE: 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 .

• ISBN: 978-0-230-34121-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 198
• Fecha Publicación: 22/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido