Not to political parties. Not to candidates. And certainly not to corporations.
AUDIT USA has developed ballot image auditing instructions and tools to ensure transparency in the 2020 election. We must know that votes are counted correctly!
AUDIT is fighting nationwide — and especially in key states and counties — to have local election officials implement specific steps for this November’s elections that will bring transparency to the 2020 election vote tabulation process. This is one area of focus among many for the individuals and organizations fighting to maintain and strengthen the foundation of our democracy. To learn more about the many efforts underway to protect our rights to elect our leaders, or to volunteer in these efforts, please visit Scrutineers.org. Scrutineers trains volunteers and then connects them with others in their communities, including how to do ballot image auditing.
You can help the United States have transparent and publicly verified elections.
If you would like to learn more about ballot image auditing, or would like to financially support this work, read on!
AUDIT USA’s work often entails filing lawsuits against election officials who do not follow federal requirements to maintain election materials — including scanned ballot images — for 22 months. Many lawyers assist us at no cost, but we must raise funds to cover filing fees and other expenses. You can support ballot image auditing by making a contribution.
You can read detailed information about ballot image auditing by selecting any of the options under “Ballot Image Project” in the menu at the top. And learn more about AUDIT USA.
We post updates on our current work on the AUDIT USA Facebook page. Below are our three most recent posts.
Vote counting is not a matter of left or right, but of right or wrong!
Wow! Could this happen here? Sadly YES! So please listen to NPR's interview with Barbara F. Walter, a professor at the University of California-San Diego and an expert on civil wars and violent extremism for 30 years. Her new book is on "How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/01/07/how-civil-wars-start
Trump and an Industry of grifters teaching ethnic entrepreneurs on how to fire up their base with fear, distrust of democracy, calling all media that they disagree with fake news, and by selling fear and hate. Professor Walters lays out how it was used throughout history. She particularly goes to the last 40 years and gives excellent examples of how it was done.
We must work together because Our democracy is under attack. Transparency with Verification is a big part of the solution. Our key concept: “The actual act of voting is the secret process; however, counting is a public process! Yes, computers do count better than people, however the problem is they're programmed by people and can be altered or misused by people.
The big thing that former SoS of AZ Ken Bennett and I (John Brakey of AUDIT USA) learned from the Arizona hand count audit of Maricopa Ballots is that we must get away from the disorganized "haystack" storage of ballot, where locating a paper ballot is like finding a needle in a haystack. Turn on the imprinter inside the high-speed digital scanners for all Early and Vote by Mail ballots. Marry the ballot to the ballot image. Thus, building a ballot library storage system for people who used the ballot images to verify the election. Then allow the public the right to use a risk-limiting type audit system to verify that the images they just counted are real. Releasing the ballot images for all future elections will go a long way towards increasing public confidence, reducing cynicism over elections. ‘We the people’ are simply seeking elections that are transparent, trackable, and publicly verified for our democracy to thrive.
Side Quote: “The 2020 election had the highest turn out in something like 120 years. It was a boom for participation, and yet, 80 million eligible American voters didn't vote in 2020. That's a lot of votes.” Barbara F. Walter.” Link: www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/01/07/how-civil-wars-start
How civil wars start and why it could happen again in America
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A contemporary civil war in America wouldn’t much resemble the last one, says political scientist Barbara F. Walter in her new book. But it could happen again — and if you’re skeptical about that, she believes you suffer from a lack of imagination that puts the country at risk.FACTS MATTER IN ELECTIONS: Excerpt: An AP reporter submitted public records requests to Arizona’s 15 counties, along with requesting information from the state attorney general’s office, which has been reviewing potential cases as part of an Election Integrity Unit created in 2019 to identify potential cases of fraud. WHAT AP FOUND: In all, 198 instances of potential fraud were identified in six counties, representing 1.9% of Biden’s margin of victory. The vast majority of the potential instances of fraud identified were in Pima County, which includes Tucson. Arizona 2020 RESULT: Biden won by 10,457 votes.
Nine counties reported no suspicious activity. Nine people have been charged so far, including six cases pursued by the state attorney general’s office, which has an election integrity unit that is reviewing an undisclosed number of additional cases.
HIGHLIGHTS: Many of the cases involved allegations of people casting multiple ballots, felons voting despite being ineligible and ballots received in the name of voters who are dead.
CASE DETAILS: Of the 176 instances of potential fraud identified in Pima County, 151 were referred to prosecutors. The county has a practice of referring every effort to cast a second ballot to prosecutors for review, something other offices don’t do.
Election officials said 25 instances involved voters over the age of 70 and were not referred since there was a greater chance those were the result of memory lapses or confusion and not criminal intent.
None of the Pima County cases involved a voter successfully voting twice.
Four of the charged cases involved a relative successfully mailing in their dead relative’s ballot, which was counted. One was charged by the attorney general and three by county prosecutors.
Five of the state’s six cases involve Pima County felons accused of voting while being ineligible.
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds | AP News
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ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
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