Verified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Public Comment on the Draft Voluntary...
Download PDF Version We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the most recent iteration of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (1.1). We understand that the goal is to move forward on specific...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Statement on the Acquisition of Premier...
The recently announced acquisition of Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) by its largest competitor, Election Services & Software (ES&S), requires close scrutiny, as it raises greater...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Improving the 2010 EAC Election Day Survey
The Election Day Survey plays an ongoing, important, and unique role in collecting and publishing data on election administration in the United States. Balancing the right of the public to know how our...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Recommendations to NIST on Post Election Audits
Verified Voting today joined with computers scientists and advocacy organizations in signing the following recommendations on post-election audits to the National Institute of Standards and Technology....
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Enfranchising Military Voters: Michigan Legislators...
In a move to enfranchise soldiers deployed overseas, the Michigan House of Representatives has passed legislation that would allow blank absentee ballots to voters overseas by fax or e-mail. If House...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Comments to FCC on Internet Voting
In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as part of its development of a National Broadband Plan, to include...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Letter to Tennessee State Senators
We respectfully urge you to vote No on House Bill 614, which seeks to delay implementation of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act and fatally weaken its provision for manual post-election audits of...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Comments on EAC Internet Pilot...
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed UOCAVA Pilot Program Testing Requirements. We appreciate the invitation for public input to such an important initiative. In this letter we...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Comments to EAC on Internet Voting Pilots
With many states already deploying a form of Internet voting, email return of voted ballots (see map), it is important that requirements for remote voting systems and the pilot programs that test them...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Best Practices for Voting Systems Supporting Military...
Given the current focus on UOCAVA implementation, the NIST draft Information System Security Best Practices for UOCAVA-Supporting Systems (referred to here as the Draft) is a timely and important...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Roadmap for Future California Elections
When it comes to elections, what does California do well? What could California do better? How have we led, and how have we perhaps lagged behind? These are questions that a diverse group of...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Comments on Proposed Changes to...
On February 14, 2012, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler held a hearing on proposed changes to existing regulations governing county procedures for the security of ballots, voting equipment, and...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Testimony to the Maryland Board of...
On February 23, the Maryland State Board of Elections held meeting a proposed system for remote absentee voting was discussed. Verified Voting submitted testimony (see below) about the system, which...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Statement on the Dangers of Internet Voting in Public...
At a time when more and more transactions occur online, a number of election officials and private organizations are looking to the Internet as one more possible avenue for balloting. When the Academy...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Verified Voting Recommendations to the Presidential...
On Election Day, long lines were produced in many cases due to voting systems that malfunctioned in multiple locations across the country. As stated in a joint letter we signed sent to President Obama...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Post Election Audits for New Hampshire
No voting system is perfect. Nearly all elections in New Hampshire, as in most of the nation, are counted using electronic vote counting systems. Such systems have produced result-changing errors...
View ArticleVerified Voting Public Commentary: Comments on Colorado Rules Concerning...
We are pleased to provide testimony and remarks regarding proposed rule changes to Colorado’s Rules Concerning Elections 8 CCR 1501-5. We appreciate the effort of your office to solicit preliminary...
View ArticleVerified Voting Public Commentary: Statement to the Pennsylvania Senate State...
Verified Voting is writing today to express our opposition to Senate Bill 1052, a bill which would permit the return of ballots by electronic transmission over insecure Internet means for military...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Andrew W. Appel: My testimony before the House...
This article appeared originally at Freedom to Tinker on September 30, 2016. I was invited to testify yesterday before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Information Technology, at a...
View ArticleVerified Voting Blog: Alex Halderman: Expert Testimony before the US Senate...
Chairman Burr, Vice Chairman Warner, and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to speak today about the security of U.S. elections. I’m here to tell you not just what I think, but about...
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