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Category: Election Results

The Facts About By-Mail Ballot Security

In this article, we dig more deeply into the details of by-mail voting operations, as well as the technical features associated with creating and printing ballots. Through a series of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), we show that “fake” by-mail ballots can’t be simply “dropped into” an election, or into drop-boxes, willy-nilly, as some inflammatory assertions would have you believe…

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The Facts About Reporting By-Mail Ballots — And Why it Takes Time

As part of the chaos that’s likely to come during the post-election counting period, we anticipate that false narratives about the time required to report results – and especially from by-mail ballots – are likely to be one of the key themes. In this short article, we dig more deeply into the details of by-mail counting operations, which might take days…

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Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1

Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”  Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. These theories exist in a perpetual social media mix-master that continues to generate new combinations of old and new zombie memes about things like “Evil Voting Software,” and “Rampant Election Fraud.” Let’s start deciphering…

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Plain Talk on Election Audits and Recounts

Suddenly many people are asking: What’s an election audit? How is it different from a recount? And they’re asking with both interest and confusion, probably because of the just-completed ballot-counting activity in Georgia. For some really plain talk, it’s not so complicated, so let’s do that….

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Game of Margins

A cornerstone to trustworthy elections is a recount process to ensure accurate outcomes. Likewise, trust in the recount process is essential. Recounts are a game of margins, which for this election is especially true. So, I offer an explanation of how recounts are conducted in just the states of most potential consequence in the coming weeks…

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Still-To-Be-Counted Ballots Are Not ‘Illegal’

As the process of ballot counting continues under intense scrutiny, some are wondering about a basic issue: What exactly does it mean when the media or election officials say that “more ballots have arrived,” or “we’re processing more ballots”? Let’s explain that right here; right now…

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Straight Talk About Disinformation and Ballot Fraud

This week our CTO John Sebes offers two comments a single article because they are tightly related to the lingering brouhaha over a recent attempt of voter intimidation initially attributed to a U.S. and Canadian far-right organization, the Proud Boys.  John’s first comment (Part 1) is about the challenges of disinformation and attribution. His second comment (Part 2) is focused on the means of the intimidation stunt: overseas ballot fraud.

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Swing Dance

During the coming weeks, America’s election infrastructure will be tested as perhaps never before, especially due to changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In that context, we present “Swing Dance,” our assessment of the process and technology risks that exist in the 14 most competitive states for the 2020 election…

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