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Ball State vSTOP outlines risk-limiting post-election audits to Monroe County election board
Summary
Matt Housley of Ball State University's vSTOP described risk-limiting audits for Indiana counties, explained the ballot-inventory and seed-drawing process, and urged unanimous board approval of a county resolution to request designation from the Secretary of State; no formal board vote on adoption occurred at this meeting.
Matt Housley, election systems audit specialist with Ball State University's voting system technical oversight program (vSTOP), gave a public presentation to the Monroe County Election Board describing how post-election risk-limiting audits work and what the county would need to do to host one.
Housley told the board that vSTOP has conducted dozens of audits in Indiana and that the audits provide an independent, statistically rigorous check on whether reported outcomes were correctly tabulated. "We take a random sample of ballots, and we hand-tally the results until that sample gives us statistical evidence that the election outcome was correctly reported," Housley said. He described a publicly reproducible process for generating random seeds (he demonstrated rolling a 10-sided die to…
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