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 […]

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

Error message on computer screen

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 […]

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

Screenshot of first portion of reply letter to ES&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, […]

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

Screenshot of Voting Rights Activists Threatened with Lawsuit by Voting Machine Maker Over Sharing Instruction Manual _ Alternet

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 […]

Victory for Election Transparency in Ohio

Brian Cleary, Manager of Ballot Preparation and Tabulation for Cuyahoga County, showing election transparency advocate John Brakey the operation of the DS850 digital ballot scanner on March 29, 2018.

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 […]

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