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Saving throw: securing democracy with stats, spreadsheets, and 10-sided dice
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 25, 2012 11:59am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Cyrus Farivar |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Risk-limiting audits" use sound math to make sure the right candidate won.
Armed with a set of 10-sided dice (we’ll get to those in a moment), an online Web tool, and a stack of hundreds of ballots, University of California-Berkeley statistics professor Philip Stark spent last Friday unleashing both science and technology upon a recent California election. He wanted to answer a very simple question—had the vote counting produced the proper result?—and he had developed a stats-based system to find out. |
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