Every day brings new, distressing details from Maricopa County, Arizona, where the Cyber Ninjas continue their haphazard search for “evidence” to support a toxic election fraud narrative. The cost of this fishing expedition – in replacement voting machines and cybersecurity cleanup measures, and to public trust in our elections – cannot be understated.
 
But with seemingly “no end in sight” in Arizona, these fake election reviews threaten to spread elsewhere. In Pennsylvania, we’ve seen calls for an “investigation” into the 2020 election results in select counties, a move that resembles the Cyber Ninjas’ anti-voter scam in Arizona.
 
Our team at Verified Voting has spent a lot of time working with Pennsylvania election officials: first to secure the necessary funding to replace the state’s outdated paperless machines, and then to plan and implement expert-recommended risk-limiting audits that follow rigorous, transparent best practices and procedures. Almost all of Pennsylvania’s counties participated in risk-limiting audit pilots following the 2020 general election, including the counties currently being targeted. Those election officials – and their counterparts across the country – who have worked hard to provide safe and secure elections don’t deserve to see their efforts undermined by partisan, fear-mongering sham reviews.
 
When done properly, post-election audits provide a transparent check on election results before the results are certified and give the public confidence that their votes were counted as cast.  With your support, we can continue establishing these nonpartisan standards and processes across the country so that every voter can have justified confidence in our elections.
 
With thanks,
The Verified Voting Team
 
P.S.  Looking for a deep dive into how audits should be conducted? You can peruse past reports from some of our risk-limiting audit pilots on our website. Or, as an example of a non-routine audit with a sound rationale and high procedural standards, the Windham, New Hampshire audit report is out now, and available alongside videos of the audit and other materials at https://www.doj.nh.gov/sb43/index.htm.