California Assembly Committee Endorses UC Berkeley Statistician's Election Auditing Method
April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010
BERKELEY, Calif., April 26 -- The University of California at Berkeley issued the following news release:
One day last November, after the 2009 elections, Philip Stark found himself in the back room of the Yolo County Administration Building doing something statisticians seldom do - testing a theory in the real world.
For four hours, Stark hand counted 1,400 randomly selected ballots to test his mathematical technique for auditing voting results, the first rigorous . . .
One day last November, after the 2009 elections, Philip Stark found himself in the back room of the Yolo County Administration Building doing something statisticians seldom do - testing a theory in the real world.
For four hours, Stark hand counted 1,400 randomly selected ballots to test his mathematical technique for auditing voting results, the first rigorous . . .