ACCOUNTABILITY

2016-11-24 – About Recounts -Recounts are one part of election accountability. Provides general information about recounts, how they work, costs, controversies

2016-11-21 – About Audits – Provides general information about audits in the greater context of public integrity and public oversight.

2016-11-18 – Audits or Fraudits? – A concise set of pointers to help citizen observers identify sham audits and faked spot checks.

2016-11-16 – The Brakey Method – A simple, yet incredibly powerful way to enable any person to “do your own recount” or check every ballot to make sure the reported result is true.

2016-11-02 – Ballot Images: a new way to verify that results are true – Shows examples of ballot images, a key part of The Brakey Method to make public elections accountable.

2016-07-19 – What constitutes an election audit – How to do your own reconciliation of election records to determine whether reported results can be substantiated

2016-02-01 – Caucus integrity – Provides a detailed, sourced review of accountability issues with caucuses, including a number of specific examples of accountability breakdowns in the 2012 Republican caucuses in three states

2016-01-07 – Voter data breaches – mentions that voter databases are needed as part of election accountability arithmetic, while illustrating why safeguards are needed to prevent misuse.

2013-11-29 – Elections in the United States – describes a number of examples of weak election accountability in U.S.

2013-11-28 – Elections in Afghanistan – Several issues have reduced accountability in Afghan elections; Difficulty ensuring public safety, violence;; men voting for women; no eligible voter list; 10x as many voter cards as voters so used ink on fingers to prevent double voting

2013-11-26  – Political Money – Both reasonable, accessible costing for election accountability measures, and full transparency for all public expenditures is needed because democracy can not work the public can get reliable confirmation of election results at reasonable cost, and unless we can see how all taxpayers funds are spent.

2013-06-13 – Political Corruption – includes a discussion of the role of accountability, through transparency and enforcement, in deterring corruption

2013-04-23 – Testimony by Tom Courbat before the California Assembly Elections Committee – an example of concise, effective public testimony by a citizen holding local election official accountable for a purchase which removed tranparency from voting system

2008-09-25 (AL) – State tries to charge $28,000 for voter list – ridiculous fees for a public records that is a crucial component of election integrity (should cost only about $25 to produce )

2008/01/07 – New Hampshire election credibility – Video: New Hampshire House Elections Committee attempts to hold voting system vendor LHS Associates accountable, questioning John Silvestro in connection with testimony by Harri Hursti about hacking the system.

2007/01/24 – Wyoming: Sheridan County: Hand recounts prohibited – Provides an example of reduced accountability in Wyoming recounts (prohibiting human validation of machine counts), with better accountability after the election because ballots are open to public records inspections.

2006/11/04 – Texas: Williamson County: ES&S voting machines miscount – Williamson County elections official dodges questions about voting system accountability, assuring that results would be correct despite two miscounts during testing, lack of paper ballots, and installation of uncertified software patch.