This cost-effective legislative and administrative proposal for
conducting scientific post-election audits can be applied to any
state. It was contributed to by three of Utah's county election
officials, as well as contributed to by prominent Ph.D. mathematicians
and statisticians who are experts in election auditing, a New
Hampshire State Election Official, and many others:

Mandatory Vote Count Audit
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/Vo...

The fundamentals of scientific election auditing are described here in
lay persons' terms (as much as possible):

Post-Election Vote Count Audits -- Probability Proportional to Margin
Error Bound (PPMEB) Method
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/VoteCountAudit...

The derivation of the formulas for election auditing sample sizes are
posted here for any mathematician to check:

Derivation of the formula for the number of selection rounds for the
Probability Proportional to
Margin Error Bound (PPMEB) method for determining samples for Vote Count
Audits
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/PPMEB-Auditing...

The U.S. Congress should pass H.R. 5036 as soon as possible in order
to provide incentive and means for conducting valid election audits of
the upcoming November 2008 election.

What could possibly excuse exempting the elections industry from the
independent scrutiny of independent auditing?

[ http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kathy+Dopp ]