Mandatory Vote Count Audit 2006

1 Mandatory Vote Count Audit2 A Legislative & Administrative Proposal3 K athy D opp, M .S. M athematics4 O riginally w ritten i n F ebruary 2006 5 Re vised i n S eptember 2006, and i n December 2007 to M arch 2008, J une and J uly a nd 6 December, 200878 Note: An a bbreviated (10 pa ge) ve rsion of t his pos t-e lection a uditing propos al that m ay be 9 preferable to t his ve rsion for l egislative purpos es is pos ted on-l ine at: 10 http:/electionmathematics.org/ /ucvA nalysis/US/paper-a udits/Vote-Count -Audit-Bi ll-2009.pdf 1112 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------13 Acknowledgements14 Thanks to a ll the fol lowing: Joycelynn S trait he lped t o w rite the fi rst dra fts of t his propos al in 15 January a nd F ebruary 2006 s pecific for U tah. Ron Ba iman a nd F rank S tenger c o-a uthored 16 election a uditing pa pers w ith m e in 2005 and 2006. Philip S tark a nd Ron Ri vest re viewed t his 17 and m ade some suggestions to i mprove its de finitions and proc edures. A lice Steiner s uggested 18 some excellent re visions. A ndy Ba rdwell urge d m e to ge neralize this propos al for us e in a ny 19 State and t o a dd t he form ulas for t he Probability P roportional to M argin E rror Bound (P PMEB) 20 method for c alculating a udit sample sizes. U tah L egal Couns el and L egislative Analyst Eric 21 Weeks m ade he lpful re quests for m ore specificity. Utah Re presentative ...