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Using randomness to protect election integrity

  • Written by Eugene Vorobeychik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
imageInspecting election results is best done with a dash of randomness.Boonyen/shutterstock.com

Democratic societies depend on trust in elections and their results. Throughout the 2016 presidential election, and since President Trump’s inauguration, allegations of Russian involvement in the U.S. presidential campaign have raised concerns about how...

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