By Nick Corasaniti Sept. 1, 2021 Late one night in May, after surveillance cameras had inexplicably been turned off, three people entered the secure area of a warehouse in Mesa County, Colo., where crucial election equipment was stored. They copied hard drives and election-management software from voting machines, the authorities said, and then fled.The identity of […]
Read MoreCourt rules North Carolina must allow former felons to vote
By Paulina VillegasYesterday at 12:20 a.m. EDT299 North Carolina judges ordered the restoration of voting rights for thousands of people with a felony conviction in what advocates call the largest expansion of voting rights in decades in the state. Under state law, individuals are prohibited from voting until they are fully discharged from probation, parole or a […]
Read MoreThe Cybersecurity 202: Election officials are pushing back against partisan audits launched by Trump allies
By: Joseph Marks Anchor of The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter Today at 7:28 a.m. EDT44 with Aaron Schaffer The battle lines are hardening between the vast majority of election officials who’ve spent months validating and defending the results of the 2020 election and former president Donald Trump’s supporters, who are still challenging those results without evidence and […]
Read MoreThe Big Money Behind the Big Lie
Bill Gates, a Republican official in Arizona, is appalled by his party’s “national effort to delegitimize the election system.”Photograph by Stephen Ross Goldstein for The New Yorker Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs. By Jane Mayer August 2, 2021 It […]
Read MoreArizona’s GOP-backed ballot review has raised more than $5.7 million in private donations, organizers say
By: Rosalind S. Helderman A private contractor conducting a Republican-commissioned review of 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona’s largest county announced late Wednesday that it has collected more than $5.7 million in private donations to fund the process. The controversial ballot review, which included a hand recount of Maricopa County’s nearly 2.1 million ballots and a review of […]
Read MoreTexas GOP lawmakers want 2020 election audit — but only in big counties that mostly went for Biden
AUSTIN — Support is growing among Texas Republicans for a push to audit the results of the 2020 election in a state that former President Donald Trump won handily. But the proposal, introduced in the House earlier this month, would only re-examine votes in Texas’s largest counties, most of which went for President Biden. The legislation, […]
Read MoreVoter Purge Project in Vice
Vice News talked with founder of the Ohio Voter Project and author of the Voter Purge Project’s data cleaning and analysis methodology Steve Tingley-Hock about our work to track wrongful data purges across the country. “When I ran the initial queries, that was my first indication that there was a serious problem here,” Steve says […]
Read MoreWill Young People Who Protest Also Vote?
Spectrum News One, Cleveland, Ohio Tweeting, Instagramming, protesting —all things that Millennials and Generation Z embrace. But what about voting? According to the Ohio Voter Project, which analyzes election data, as of July 1, there are approximately 740,000 voters, ages 18-24 registered to vote in the state, compared to 3 million people age 50 and […]
Read MoreOne IT Guy’s Spreadsheet-Fueled Race to Restore Voting Rights
From WIRED Magazine September 2020 Issue: Armed with [Steve Tingley-Hock’s], work, voter rights groups in a handful of states are trying to plug these holes in the voter registration system—before hundreds of thousands of voters are drained from the rolls ahead of the presidential election. It’s the story of database nerds, armed with a deep […]
Read MoreOhio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%.
When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn’t have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing. By Nicholas CaseyOct. 14, 2019COLUMBUS, Ohio — The clock was ticking for Jen Miller. The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 […]
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