Principles for Post-Election Audits: Putting It All Together Panel 7 Saturday, October 27.
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Transcript of Principles for Post-Election Audits: Putting It All Together Panel 7 Saturday, October 27.
Principles for Post-Election Audits:Putting It All Together
Panel 7Saturday, October 27
Principles for Post-Election Audits: Where Do We Go From Here?
• What have we learned?– election auditing is in its infancy & evolving rapidly– many points of agreement
• e.g., it’s difficult to put statistics into legislative language
– some more controversial ideas• e.g., responsibility for audits should be independent
• Transparency!– it’s good for election officials as well as the public
• Building Public Confidence– expecting routine problems &
variations/descrepancies
What needs to be done?
• to help spread the election auditing gospel
• to gain more cooperation from election officials
• to build information & infrastructure
• to provide foundations for good legislation
Possible Follow-on Activities
• Post-Summit Working Groups• Information Sharing• Web Information Resources• Research Coordination• Policy Development• Individual State Meetings (ala this
Summit)
Possible Post-Summit Working Groups
• Table of State Auditing Laws, Administrative Rules, and Current Developments
• Glossary of Election Auditing Terms
• Web Archive of Auditing Documents & Forms
• Model Auditing Standards & Legislation
• Election Auditing Training Materials
• Data Collection Instrument Design
• Statistical Sampling and Measurement
Information Resources & Sharing• More Face to Face Meetings
– Another National Election Auditing Summit?– State-specific meetings?
• Web Sites
• Email list servers
• Wiki's for sharing files & collaborative editing
• On-line Bibliographies & Resource lists
• On-line & Spreadsheet Audit Calculators
Election Auditing Summit Meetings in Selected Individual
States?• Bring together similar mix of local and
state election officials, statisticians, computer scientists, and election integrity advocates.
• PLUS selected others from other states– (some via remote videoconference if
necessary)
• Hold in state capitol so key legislators and their staff can participate
Other Venues to Spread the Word
• National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
• National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL)
• National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks (NACRC) [schedules meetings in conjunction with National Association of Counties (NACo) conferences]
• International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials and Treasurers (IACREOT) [splintered from NACRC in 1960's)
• Others?
Data Collection
• Specify what kinds of data are needed– precinct-level, by contest, equipment, type of
voting
• Develop standard forms for gathering data– Election equipment– Auditing & vote counting procedures– Detailed audit cost components– Etc.
• Collect existing forms, training materials, etc.
Promising Research Areas
• Sampling methods to improve efficiency– (statisticians, computer scientists)
• Counting methods for accuracy & efficiency– (statisticians, industrial psychologists)
• How to change norms for election auditing– (administrative behaviorists, industrial
psychologists)
Infrastructure Policy Development
• Public access to data
• Transparency across all levels of voting process
• Election tabulation & auditing rules & legislation– stay tuned for Panel 8!