@book{d7a4dda196db4e14945a6aee4de431c7,
title = "Voter Perceptions of Trust in Risk-Limiting Audits (Extended)",
abstract = "Risk-limiting audits (RLAs) are expected to strengthen the public confidence in the correctness of an election outcome. We hypothesize that this is not always the case, in part because for large margins between the winner and the runner-up, the number of ballots to be drawn can be so small that voters lose confidence. We conduct a user study with 105 participants resident in the US. Our findings confirm the hypothesis, showing that our study participants felt less confident when they were told the number of ballots audited for RLAs. We elaborate on our findings and propose recommendations for future use of RLAs. ",
keywords = "Risk-limiting audits, Election confidence, Voter perception, Ballot sampling, User study, Election integrity, Audit methodology, Risk-limiting audits, Election confidence, Voter perception, Ballot sampling, User study, Election integrity, Audit methodology",
author = "Asmita Dalela and Oksana Kulyk and Carsten Sch{\"u}rmann",
note = "This is an extended version of the paper originally published in the proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID) as a short paper.",
year = "2021",
language = "English",
}