Federal funding and rules for voter-verified paper ballots, election audits, open-source voting software, and state upgrade payments.
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“Federal election audits should count paper ballots with machines only when federal rules say the machines cannot connect to the internet, and people should count the ballots by hand when no approved offline machine is available.”
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“Election officials should store voter-verified paper ballots so the ballots can be used later without letting anyone match a ballot to the voter who cast it.”
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“The Election Assistance Commission should write the detailed rules for storing official paper ballots, approving audit methods, and deciding how states handle federal election disputes when paper ballots are proven to be compromised.”
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“The federal government should help states pay to replace or upgrade voting systems for the new paper ballot and audit-capacity changes, including some eligible costs states already paid.”
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“DHS and the Election Assistance Commission should study open-source voting software, and if the study recommends it, the EAC should work with private partners to develop, test, certify, maintain, and provide certified software to state election officials at no charge.”
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“Voting systems used in federal elections should create a paper ballot each voter can review, correct if the machine made an error, and read in the required languages before the vote is counted.”
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“The new voter-checked paper ballot and audit-capacity changes should start with the November 2024 general election for federal offices and continue for later federal elections.”
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“Federal election recounts and audits should use voter-verified paper ballots as the official record, and those ballots should be readable and usable for a meaningful hand audit.”
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“States should tell the Election Assistance Commission how they will use 2023 election-upgrade payments, estimate the costs, report the final eligible costs later, and repay any federal money they received above what they actually spent.”
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