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Election Officials Need a Helping Hand, Not Hand Count Legislation

Election officials already have enough to handle as the fight against disinformation continues. Now some states and local jurisdictions, spurred on by baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, are considering legislation that would replace all machine tabulated election night results with hand-counting paper ballots – legislation that’s potentially nightmarish for election officials.    Any jurisdiction…

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Voting Machines at Risk in 2022, a joint analysis from the Brennan Center and Verified Voting

A joint analysis from the Brennan Center and Verified Voting finds replacing aging voting equipment will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Voting Machines at Risk in 2022 by Turquoise Baker, Megan Maier, Lawrence Norden, and Warren Stewart Between 2014 and 2020, the Bren­nan Center released a series of analyses detail­ing the prob­lem of aging voting equip­ment in the…

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New 2020 general election dataset published

The 2020 U.S. General Election official county-level results are now publicly available all in one place, in a variety of formats.   The collection includes official election results for each of the 50 states, the five major territories, and the District of Columbia. It includes all federal contests, most statewide contents, and most state legislative contests,…

New Hampshire SB 43 Forensic Audit Report

Windham, New Hampshire’s SB 43 Forensic Audit Report was published in July 2021 and was authored by Harri Hursti, Mark Lindeman, and Philip B. Stark. Download the full report here.   Executive Summary This forensic audit addressed the unusual numerical disparity between the originally reported results for the November 2020 contest for New Hampshire State…