Verified Voting Blog: Recommendations to NIST on Post Election Audits
Verified Voting today joined with computers scientists and advocacy organizations in signing the following recommendations on post-election audits to the National Institute of Standards and Technology....
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Efficient Auditing of Election Results
On March 27 and 28, 2010, Verified Voting and Common Cause sponsored a meeting of in Washington, D.C. to share experiences and ideas for improving post-election audits. The participants included...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: California Legislation Calls for First Risk-Limiting...
Over the past year, election auditing experts, including Verified Voting staff, have been working with California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office toward improving California’s audits. Now...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: The 2010 Primaries: More Recounts than Recountable...
The 2010 primary election season is in full swing. As in every election cycle, there are a number of extremely close races, with recounts looming for some. So far this year, state-mandated automatic...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: On the South Carolina Primary – A call for recountable,...
Last week’s surprising outcome in a party primary in South Carolina for United States Senate was accompanied by anecdotal reports of voting problems on election day, and many questions about the...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: States May Use Federal HAVA Funds for Post-Election Audits
Post-election audits of electronic vote tallies are inexpensive. The process is simple: a sample of precincts (or batches of ballots that have been tallied electronically) is chosen randomly, counted...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: New York SD 7: Count the Paper
In the first test case of how we verify election results using New York’s new paper ballots, the State Judiciary is in the process of setting an egregious precedent – Judges are free to nullify audits...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Paper Ballots – New York Courts Don’t Get It
New York State’s highest Court has upheld lower Court decisions to stop any further counting of ballots and declare a winner in the 7th Senate District race. The decision is unfortunate on many levels,...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Flawed Wisconsin Race Proves Need for Transparency,...
When Wisconsin voters flocked to the polls on April 5, one of the factors driving the high turnout was the State Supreme Court contest between incumbent Justice David Prosser and challenger JoAnne...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Report on second risk-limiting audit under AB 2023 in...
The second risk-limiting audit under California AB 2023 was conducted on May 6 in Monterey County. The contest was a Special all-mail election for Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Director,...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Virginia – the new Florida?
There are many ways in which Virginia 2012 could resemble the Florida 2000 - only worse. At least in 2000 there were paper ballots to recount in Florida. But only 7 out of 134 Virginia localities...
View ArticleColorado: Voting in Colorado
Arapahoe County Colorado was in the news the week with the Denver Post reporting that envelopes containing absentee ballots mailed to over 230,000 voters included “I Voted” stickers, which rubbed up...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Recount Roulette
We risk an election meltdown worse than the Florida 2000 debacle when the presidential election came down to hanging chads and chaos. This time we are looking at another razor close result and perhaps...
View ArticleVermont: Checking up on Vermont’s voting machines | vt.Buzz
The office of the Secretary of State will conduct audits Thursday of the accuracy of the vote counts produced by the optical scanning devices used in four communities for two races – state treasurer...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Leave Election Integrity to Chance
How do we know whether the reported winners of an election really won? There's no perfect way to count votes. To paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant and Richard M. Nixon, "Mistakes will be made." Voters don't...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Recommendations to the Presidential...
On Election Day, long lines were produced in many cases due to voting systems that malfunctioned in multiple locations across the country. As stated in a joint letter we signed sent to President Obama...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Post Election Audits for New Hampshire
No voting system is perfect. Nearly all elections in New Hampshire, as in most of the nation, are counted using electronic vote counting systems. Such systems have produced result-changing errors...
View ArticleNational: Post Election Audits Help States Confirm Election Results | The...
If the term “audit” either makes you shudder or makes you want to snooze, you’re not alone. But a post-election audit can be an integral step in ensuring the integrity of the election process. Voting...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: What are the post-Election Day procedures states can...
Ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the vote count can help generate public confidence in elections. Two of the most important steps happen after voting concludes on Election Day. Ballot accounting...
View ArticleEditorials: Five reasons why you can count on Minnesota’s voting system |...
Rigged? Fraudulent? Excuse me, but as Donald Trump might interject: “Wrong!” In Minnesota, we can have confidence in our election outcomes. For the past 12 years, Citizens for Election Integrity...
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Verified Voting Blog: Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the...
You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states. Thatarticle, which includes somebody else’s...
View ArticleNational: Russia probably didn’t hack US election – but we still need audits,...
The computer science experts who want the presidential election results audited don’t think a Russian vote-hacking operation is likely, either. But they’ve been upset for a decade that there’s no way...
View ArticleNational: Votes Miscounted? Your State May Not Be Able to Find Out. | Governing
Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein's recent requests for recounts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin highlight how few states routinely verify the accuracy of their vote counts:...
View ArticleEditorials: 3 Reforms for America’s Vulnerable Democracy in Light of the 2016...
The end is near. All remaining political disputes – recounts, in this case – must be wrapped up by Tuesday, six days before Dec. 19 when the members of the Electoral College meet in their respective...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: A Democracy Worth the Paper — Ballot — it’s Written on...
As the CIA digs deep to investigate foreign influence on our election, we should recognize that we don’t need cybersecurity experts to tell us if our votes have been accurately counted. Citizen...
View ArticleKansas: WSU statistician: New voting machines more tamper-resistant, but not...
Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson says Sedgwick County’s new voting machines leave less room for vote tampering than the old ones did, but still aren’t perfect. “It’s a step in the...
View ArticleNational: DHS Never Ran Audit to See if Votes Were Hacked | Daily Beast
Despite assurances from the U.S. intelligence community that Russian hacking only influenced the 2016 U.S. election—and didn’t change vote tallies—there was never actually a formal federal audit of...
View ArticleNational: Can US Elections Be Hacked? Security Experts Call For More...
More than one hundred security researchers and experts signed on to a letter sent to member of the United States Congress to warn of their belief that not enough has been done to protect against...
View ArticleVirginia: Learning 2016’s Lessons, Virginia Prepares Election Cyberdefenses |...
This fall's statewide elections in Virginia and New Jersey are the first big test of security measures taken in response to last year's attempts by Russia to meddle with the nation's voting system....
View ArticleNational: Are Americans Beginning to Care About Election Integrity? | WhoWhatWhy
Nearly a year after the 2016 presidential election, many Americans have been forced, some for the very first time, to look critically at their voting protections, and recognize that US balloting...
View ArticleNational: Securing the vote: How ‘paper’ can protect US elections from...
When Logan Lamb visited the website of Georgia’s Center for Election Systems in Aug. 2016, what he found left him speechless. Although the cybersecurity researcher had no password or special...
View ArticleNational: Here’s how hackers could cause chaos in this year’s US midterm...
On November 6, Americans will head to the polls to vote in the congressional midterm election. In the months before the contest, hordes of foreign hackers will head to their keyboards in a bid to...
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