Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE View press release in .pdf format September 27, 2019. Transparent Elections NC, a group advocating for transparent, verifiable, and audible elections, is warning that one of the voting systems being considered by some North Carolina counties may jeopardize the validity of the 2020 elections. Beginning on December 1, 2019 counties […]
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 […]
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, […]
A case filed yesterday in the Ohio Supreme Court asks that Secretary of State Jon Husted be ordered to prevent destruction of key election records in the May 8 primary election. Fifteen counties in Ohio use digital scanners to count votes cast on hand-marked paper ballots. In two of these counties, Cuyahoga County (where Cleveland is) […]
Yesterday was a rare hopeful day in the life of this election transparency activist. I had the pleasure of meeting with the Honorable Matt Dunlap, Secretary of State of Maine. While 240 communities in Maine hand count all races in every election, other jurisdictions use electronic voting machines that produce digital ballot images. Dunlap assured […]
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