We preemptively alert the County that the historic two-page double-sided ballot, densely filled with paragraph-long propositions will be difficult to fill out and so risks long lines, voter frustration, and voter suppression as people abandon the lines. Ballot voting trials, past vote center traffic, and peak voting patterns are used to argue the risks. Solutions […]
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North Carolina Early Voting Locations Conflict with Statutory Requirement for Partisan Neutrality
North Carolina law prohibits the use of early voting sites that disproportionately favor one political party. Despite that prohibition, at least a dozen NC counties selected early voting college campus locations that disproportionately favor one party. To Download the Full Report
Ballot Chain of Custody Violations—Maricopa 2022
Prior to the 2022 General Election, Secretary of State Hobbs admonished Cochise County that any deviation from the EPM would be unlawful. But just one month later, Hobbs chose to disregard Maricopa County’s admitted deviations from the EPM and violations of law as she oversaw and certified her own election. Long withheld documents show a […]
Federally Protected Student Data Shared with Democrat-Exclusive Voter Data Company
The data students and parents share with universities is deeply personal and highly sensitive. Federal privacy laws restrict access to and disclosure of student data but university officials may have been duped into authorizing disclosure of highly sensitive private student data to a partisan private corporation that works exclusively with Democrats and progressives under the […]
Double-Scanning of Ballots and the Need for Reconciliation
The need for reconciliation is well-demonstrated by multiple documented examples of double-tabulating of ballots. The number of ballots cast should never exceed the number of voters who participate in an election. Reconciliation is a commonsense process that should be mandatory for every election jurisdiction in the US. Reconciliation prior to certification would reveal errors and […]
Pennsylvania Voter-Not-Verified Vulnerability
Mail ballots are being sent to voters with a not-verified status in Pennsylvania. Guidance and directives from the PA Department of State instruct counties to register and mail ballots to voters who provide invalid ID or no ID. Counties must attempt to obtain and verify identification which is likely to end in crisis as described […]
Overseas Voting Vulnerabilities
Election officials and the media often refer to late arriving ballots as military votes. This is a misnomer. Certain absentee voting privileges, which had previously been reserved for the military, were expanded to include US citizens living abroad, even those who have never lived in the United States. Federal laws have created serious vulnerabilities through […]
ERIC Sharing Data with Zuckerburg-Funded NGO
ERIC was allegedly established to help states make voter rolls more accurate. The primary effect of ERIC is to grow the voter rolls by converting eligible-but-unregistered (EBU) persons into registered voters. States divulge to ERIC personally identifying information of unregistered residents, including people who have declined to register for privacy reasons. FOIAs reveal that ERIC […]
Long Withheld Records Reveal More than 20,000 Mail Ballots Received After the Legal Deadline
Long Withheld Records Reveal More than 20,000 Mail Ballots Received After the Legal Deadline Maricopa County withheld requested public documents for nearly seven months. These documents show 18,000 additional late ballots not previously reported. Several contests were decided by less than 20K votes, most notably the statewide presidential race that was decided by only 10,457. […]
Maricopa Undelivered Ballots—Whereabouts Unknown
Verity Vote found over 56,000 Maricopa County live ballots were undeliverable. Those ballots are election materials that The Recorders Office admits they did not retain. The law requires that election materials be retained. To Download the Report Discarded unvoted election materials present an invitation to illegal voting. This is well-illustrated by Stephen Richer’s review of […]
Partisan Entities Given Access to Backend of Pennsylvania Online Voter Registration System
Pennsylvania is one of only four states that allow third party entities to access to voter registration systems via an API. Most states and most countries prohibit access to sensitive election data but in Pennsylvania, third party organizations (posting entities) are not only given access to the SURE system, but they also have the ability […]
Maricopa Dropbox Chain of Custody
740,000 Ballots Have No Documented Chain of Custody. Verity Vote conducted an investigation of Maricopa County’s ballot chain of custody for the 2020 General Election. County records show problematic retrieval of early voting ballots from vote centers and drop box locations. Numerous violations of Arizona election law are revealed. The violations identified are important because […]
Pennsylvania Voter Deficit
For the 2020 General Election, Pennsylvania requires a count of 7,035,796 ballots to explain their election results. This includes ballots with votes for one of the three major presidential candidates, all write-in votes, all over-votes, all under-votes (as reported by the 67 counties), and the 71K late mail ballots. After all counties closed the election […]