ElectionAudits talk for Front Range Pythoneers, 2009-01-21 by Neal McBurnett

ElectionAudits - Overview

• Audit Election: Compare sample of detailed results with hand counts
• E.g., Markey vs Musgrave
• Fixed percentage vs Risk-sensitive audits
• Selections for Markey vs Musgrave
• Principles and Best practices
• Results

Django and Python

• Rivest's varsize.py
• ElectionAudits - MIT license
• Hosted at Launchpad, Bzr
• Debug_toolbar for great debugging over the web

Help wanted with:

• Windows testing, installation, eggs and Django, etc
• Web presentation: css, layout
• Logo
• Django/python insights
• Changes to law in Colorado - Election Reform Commission
• Biggest challenge: getting useful data out of election systems

Links:

• ElectionAudits on Launchpad
• Boulder Audit, 2008
• (https://edge.launchpad.net/electionaudits)
• Help Audit Elections
• Open source auditing tool boosts election integrity - ArsTechnica

This talk: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/electionaudits/electionaudits-talk.html