Votes switched in Indiana
https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2019/11/05/faulty-machines-again-blamed-switching-votes-greater-lafayette-races/4163625002/
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Virginia Went To Paper Within 60 Days. It Can Be Done.
The Commonwealth of Virginia detected a vulnerability in their voting machines and decided to move immediately to paper ballots. And they did it within 60 days of it having been done. And the good news is that they already know how to make the transition and are willing to help other states. So… Consider that Virginia has both deep rural residents as well as most of the DC bureaucrats. All it takes is political will.…
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Veterans made the greatest sacrifice for the right to vote. Now it’s our turn.
We are indeed blessed to have men and women who are willing to put on a uniform and defend freedom. Ensuring that the method of our democracy is safe and secure is a matter of concern for every American citizen and is the least we can do to repay the debt we owe the men and women who’ve been injured or killed in the cause of serving the country. All it takes is to join…
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Is Georgia On Your Mind?
If you’re a Freedom-loving American citizen, it oughta be. Georgia is one of 5 states that has zero paper record of votes. And the person in charge of elections in Georgia is also a candidate for Governor. And there are real, legitimate questions about the handling of elections in Georgia. It was under his watch in 2017 that the state of Georgia deleted 2016 election data “during routine maintenance” the day after a lawsuit was…
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Hackers expose vulnerabilties
DefCon is a gathering of white- and black-hat hackers (white hats do hacking for the benefit of the commons – exposing vulnerabilities in software and black-hat hackers do hacking for a variety of other reasons). Recently, some hackers showed the vulnerabilities in the systems that count the vote.
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Thanks to the US Vote Foundation
The US Vote Foundation agreed to allow us to access their curated database of county-level election official contact information. Now when someone enters their address, we return both their elected officials as well as the officials (who may or may not be elected) connected to elections decisions at the county/township level. Acquiring and keeping that data current is not an easy task and they’ve generously allowed us to access their API to that data. This…
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Progress Update
I State of the App the last week we’ve had conversations with some leading organizations in the effort to secure our elections. USVoteFoundation has graciously given us access to election official contact information that we are working on integrating. This is incredibly important information that you’d think the government would make public, but instead it makes it difficult. And USVoteFoundation has stepped in to consolidated this data into a useable format. We’re also working…
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Bring it, Philly
One of the missing pieces to the #WeWantPaperBallotsNow campaign at the moment is very local contact information for decision-makers who could influence funding for paper ballots. This is arguably the most critical piece, since all voting is hyper-local. The GoogleCivicAPI doesn’t go that deep, so we have to find and integrate other data sources to make the app truly localized for every American. We’ve hand-rolled a version of the app just for Philadelphia to demonstrate…
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Beta seems solid.
Got some of the final bugs out of the action generation for congressional reps that was interfering with the tweet and facebook action creation that only sent partial messages to Twitter and Facebook. All that’s fixed now.