This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to learn more about new approaches to improve existing election audit procedures.

'Election audits are rapidly becoming election administrators' most powerful tool for ensuring that the system works for citizens as voters and taxpayers alike. This book should be required reading for anyone who seeks to understand why auditing the entire voting process is a necessity, not a luxury, for election officials nationwide.' Doug Chapin, director of the Program for Excellence in Election Administration at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs

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R. MICHAEL ALVAREZProfessor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology, USA.
LONNA RAE ATKESONProfessor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico, USA.
THAD E. HALL Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.

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Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity Comprehensive Audits Statistical Advances in Election Auditing Confidence in the Electoral System: Why We Do Auditing Summary of Election Audits in California Machines Versus Humans: The Counting and Recounting of Pre-scored Punchcard Ballots The New Mexico Pilot Project Counting the Ballots: A Comparison of Machine and Hand Counts in New Mexico The Cost of Election Audits: Time and Money Public Policy and Election Audits in New Mexico Procedural Audits: Utah and Auditing Elections Auditing in a Vote By Mail Environment Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002 Conclusion: The Future of Election Auditing