Emily Levy, Author at AUDIT USA

August 17, 2019

California To County Election Officials: You Must Preserve Digital Ballot Images from Voting Machines

California to Counties: Preserve All Ballot Images

AUDIT USA Urges Other States to Join California, Arizona, Maryland, Maine, Virginia, and Ohio in Following Federal Law In a win for election security, the California Secretary of State’s office notified county election officials that the law requires preservation of the digital ballot images created by the voting systems used in about half of California’s […]

November 21, 2018

Government Technology: Florida’s Election Hardware Troubles Are Nothing New

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Overheated machines in Palm Beach County may have thrown a proverbial wrench in this year’s midterm elections counts, forcing recounts etc., but there is a deeper history of hardware issues dating back to 2008. (TNS) — A voting system has to do two things: Count votes correctly and keep them secure. The Sequoia voting system in […]

October 9, 2018

AUDIT USA Replies to ‘Cease and Desist’ Letter from ES&S

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Election Security Watchdog Group Will Neither Cease nor Desist Last week, election systems vendor ES&S sent us a “Cease and Desist” letter, threatening to sue AUDIT USA if we don’t remove the manuals for two of their voting systems from our website. We have now replied officially to that threat via letter from our attorney, […]

October 1, 2018

AUDIT USA Threatened with Lawsuit by E-Voting Company ES&S

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AUDIT USA has received a cease and desist letter from the largest voting system vendor in the US, Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Read all about it at Alternet in this excellent article by Steven Rosenfeld. UPDATE 10/2: Here’s the letter we received from ES&S, followed by our commentary about it: 18.10.02 ES&S Threat letter We […]

May 17, 2018

Victory for Election Transparency in Ohio

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After Lawsuit Threatened, SOS Instructs Counties to Preserve Digital Ballot Images Before Case Filed AUDIT USA’s work for election transparency and integrity is gaining momentum around the country. Our efforts in Ohio have led to a formal, mandatory Directive from Secretary of State Jon Husted to Ohio counties to preserve the digital ballot images produced […]