@misc{CPRBx16, author = { Berj Chilingirian and Zara Perumal and Ronald L. Rivest and Grahame Bowland and Andrew Conway and Philip B. Stark and Michelle Blom and Chris Culnane and Vanessa Teague }, title = { Auditing Australian Senate Ballots }, date = { 2016-10-01 }, OPTyear = { 2016 }, OPTmonth = { October 1, }, howpublished = { arXiv:1610.00127 }, urla = { arXiv }, abstract = { We explain why the Australian Electoral Commission should perform an audit of the paper Senate ballots against the published preference data files. We suggest four different post-election audit methods appropriate for Australian Senate elections. We have developed prototype code for all of them and tested it on preference data from the 2016 election. }, }