Election Mathematics

Many of the documents available on ElectionArchive.org and USCountVotes are now available here. If you need something that is missing, email kathy.dopp at gmail.com with the old URL/filename.

NEW! Here are

1. a shortened (ten page) version of a model post-election auditing legislative proposal with a new formula that is easy-to-use in a spreadsheet to estimate audit sample sizes that provide at least a 99% chance to detect the smallest amount of vote miscount that could alter an election outcome, and

2. a working draft of an analysis of US House Representative Rush Holt's election audit proposal that also provides a new formula for estimating election audit sample sizes that provide at most a 1% chance of not detecting vote miscount that could alter an election outcome, and

3. an election transparency bill for Utah that is supported by the League of Women Voters of Utah and will be considered in the Utah legislature this year. (Unfortunately the financial situation means we can only try to pass bills that do not require funding this year.) Read your own state's election statutes to see if it also needs revisions to conform to modern practice, federal statutes, and to allow for ballot reconciliation and public oversight over the integrity of the electoral process.

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We are still working on election integrity issues, and need your support to continue operating. U.S. elections remain wide-open to undetected outcome-changing vote fraud and innocent error. Old issues such as the lack of independent scrutiny over election results are still unsolved, and new threats to election integrity, such as instant runoff voting, continue to emerge. Do not be misled by groups like Common Cause and Fair Vote which continue to mislead the public on election issues by pushing for alleged election reforms such as the Help America Vote Act or lately Instant Runoff Voting that *sound* good at first glance but in reality threaten to eviscerate public transparency, accuracy, and fairness of U.S. elections.

This site contains information on methods to achieve election integrity, including ways to detect vote miscount, measure voter disenfranchisement levels, how to conduct manual election audits, analyze exit poll discrepancies, and how the public could oversee the integrity of the election process by examining election records and data; plus links to reports analyzing various voting systems and their costs.

Please send any inquiries to Kathy Dopp kathy.dopp at gmail.com

Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 01/05/2009 09:12 PM by admin