2016-11-07

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Professor Ron Rivest discusses a technique for post election audits - taking small samples and using Pólya's Urn.

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See our other election video with Prof Rivest: /youtube/video/BYRTvoZ3Rho

Perils of e-Voting on Computerphile: https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI

RSA Encryption: /youtube/video/M7kEpw1tn50

Some recommended links from Professor Rivest...

Paper from this video: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs.html#RS12

Philip Stark links about elections and auditing: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Vote/

This introductory paper on "risk-limiting audits": http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/RLAwhitepaper12.pdf

Urn simulator: http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/apps/PolyaExperiment.html

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