News
2025
July
- Check out the latest issue of IEEE Uplink to read a summary of our work on risk-limiting audits for IRV elections using RAIRE.
March
Two of our papers were accepted at Voting’25:
We have released a preprint of our latest method for calculating margins of victory for STV elections:
2024
December
Congratulations to Michelle Blom for winning the 2024 University of Melbourne Excellence Award for Interdiscplinary Research for her work on risk-limiting audits for preferential elections.
Michelle Blom discussed our work on post-election auditing at the ADM+S conference on the fairness of elections in the age of AI:
October
- Our work on improving the computational complexity of adaptive audits for IRV elections was presented at EVOTE’24.
June
Our team published an article in the University of Melbourne’s Pursuit magazine about our work on auditing preferential elections.
Congratulations to Michelle Blom for winning the 2024 Faculty of Engineering Excellence Award for Research for her work on risk-limiting audits for preferential elections.
May
- Our work on improved risk-limiting audits for 2-seat STV elections, and efficient weighting schemes for adaptively weighted audits, was presented at VOTING’24
2023
October
- Congratulations to Michelle Blom and Vanessa Teague for winning the 2023 IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice, in conjunction with Philip Stark and Mark Lindeman, at Sec Dev’23.
- Our team presented work on adaptive audits for IRV elections at EVOTE’23.
February
- Our work on risk limiting audits for Ranked Pairs elections has been accepted to the VOTING’23 workshop.
2022
September
- Our work on using Dirichlet-Tree models for ballot-polling audits of IRV elections was presented at the first International Workshop on Election Infrastructure Security (EIS’22).
May
- Our work on risk limiting audits for 2-seat STV elections was presented at VOTING’22!
January
- This past year our team has explored risk-limiting audit methodologies for both party-list proportional and Hamiltonian elections. We have also been successful in our ARC Discovery Project application on post-election audits for Single Transferable Vote (STV) elections!
2021
December
- In an early Christmas present, our team has been awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant. This project will focus on developing post-election audit methodologies for Single Transferable Vote (STV) elections.
January
- Despite the COVID-19 pandemic sending us Melbournians home for the majority of the year in 2020, this past year has been a busy one on the election auditing and analysis front. We presented three papers at EVOTE-ID’20, winning a best paper award for ‘You can do RLAs for IRV’ summarising the first pilot of our methodology for risk-limiting audits of IRV elections. Early in the year, we presented work at IAAI on exploring whether certain mistakes, such as lost ballot boxes, could have had caused specific candidates to lose a seat in the context of STV elections.