risk-limiting-audits

Voting Village·58 min

• DEF CON
• Policy
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Philip Stark

Election auditing pioneer Philip Stark details how Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) provide statistical verification of paper ballots while warning against auditing untrustworthy vote records.

Voting Village·31 min

• DEF CON
• Policy
• Date: Aug 2021
• Location: Las Vegas

Carsten Schürmann

Carsten Schürmann analyzes how bad-faith actors weaponize Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) and audit misunderstandings in election disinformation campaigns.