Post-Election Audits in the Philippines
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2022
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How do you observe the unobservable? The election technology
in use in the Philippines are optical ballot scanners called Vote
Counting Machines (VCMs) that scan, count, and transmit election results
at the close of polls back to the national tallying center. Postelection
audits called Random Manual Audits (RMAs) are required by
law to take place prior to the result becoming final. In this paper, we
explore the idea of replacing RMAs by Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs)
that are effcient, have a high chance of correcting an incorrect election
outcome by the means of a recount, and can therefore strengthen public
confidence in the election.
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Post-Election Audits, Optical Ballot Scanning, Risk-Limiting Audit