Evidence-Based Elections
Evidence-Based Elections
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循证选举
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
D. Wagner
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作者：
P. Stark;D. Wagner
作者提出了一种替代目前要求认证投票设备和进行选举的方法。他们认为，选举的结构应该提供令人信服的肯定证据，证明报告的结果实际上反映了人们的投票方式。这可以通过软件独立的投票系统、合规性审计和风险限制审计的组合来实现。总之，这些产生了一个有弹性的拉票框架：一种容错的选举方法，可以提供强有力的证据，证明报告的结果是正确的，或者报告的证据不令人信服。如果采用基于证据的选举，对投票设备的认证和测试可以放松，节省金钱和时间，减少投票系统创新的障碍，选举的完整性也将受益。作者的结论是，应该对证据线索进行更多的监管，对设备进行更少的监管，并且应该要求进行合规性审计和风险限制审计。
The authors propose an alternative to current requirements for certifying voting equipment and conducting elections. They argue that elections should be structured to provide convincing affirmative evidence that the reported outcomes actually reflect how people voted. This can be accomplished with a combination of software-independent voting systems, compliance audits, and risk-limiting audits. Together, these yield a resilient canvass framework: a fault-tolerant approach to conducting elections that gives strong evidence that the reported outcome is correct or reports that the evidence is not convincing. If evidence-based elections are adopted, certification and testing of voting equipment can be relaxed, saving money and time and reducing barriers to innovation in voting systems-and election integrity will benefit. The authors conclude that there should be more regulation of the evidence trail and less regulation of equipment, and that compliance audits and risk-limiting audits should be required.