Latest News AuditEngine Case Study Report AuditEngine was used to audit three counties in Florida: Collier, Volusia, and St. Lucie Counties. Learn about audit en...
Background This lawsuit was filed due to our request to view ballots was denied by the Registrar of Voters, Michael Vu. The goal of this request and the first few...
CitizensOversight.org Reveals Thousands of Ballots Misplaced and Hundreds Uncounted by San Diego County Registrar of Voters in November, 2008 General Election S...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. And very recently, we have had a few breakthroughs putting...
CommonProjects The general organization of projects can be found here: COPsProgram. * Cops.GovernmentAccessChannel The City of El Cajon utilizes Cox cable c...
#AuditLogDiscrepancies Audit Log Discrepancies COPs requested and received the central tabulator audit log. This is perhaps the most important means for oversigh...
#ChainOfCustody Chain of Custody Chain of Custody Overview The term "chain of custody" is most commonly used with regard to legal evidence. Chain of custody re...
#ConcludingRemarks Concluding Remarks Some concluding remarks are in order. Opinions are those of the primary investigator, Raymond Lutz. RoV not prepared for o...
#DocumentsReferenced Documents Referenced The following documents were provided by the RoV as a response to our request or obtained from other sources. These doc...
#ExecutiveSummaryAndIntroduction Executive Summary Introduction This report is the result of a project initiated by Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) in 2008...
Issues Summary This part of the report lists all issues in numerical order. There are two major categories of issues. * Issues related to RoV Procedures Thes...
#CanvassProcedureSummary Canvass Procedure Summary This section of the Cops Canvass Report describes the overall process used to conduct elections in San Diego C...
#UnscannedBallots Ballot Control and Scanning The first step of our review is to determine if all the ballots were correctly processed. Acceptable Error Rate Vo...
Latest News * December2012FundraisingEmail Background This topic will help us to organize our fundraising efforts. Citizens Oversight has reached a new level...
Latest News This project provides a place to gather up and organize links to various initiatives regarding audits, including statistical and exhaustive approaches...
This project is working to improve the integrity of our elections, one of the most critical areas in a democracy. It now seems certain that the last two elections...
ElectionIntegrityTeamMeeting2014Jun04 The following is the invitation to the 04 Jun 2014 meeting. Videos and snapshots are on the main project page ElectionSnapho...
Latest News This topic is now being used as a basis for more general instructions, here: ElectionOversightProcedures The primary election has many new development...
ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read this as a web page: http://www.copswiki.org/Common/ElectionTeamEmail_2016 08 07 * read the next email: ElectionTeamE...
By: CHRIS BAGLEY Staff Writer SACRAMENTO Although the state's chief elections official had signaled the possibility that she would order the replacement or ma...
Experts: State should audit election results Michael Gerstein , The Detroit News 12:06 a.m. EDT October 17, 2016 file voting machine (Photo: Robin Buckson / Detro...
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, I took a round robin tour of four election district offices in Southern California: Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Bernardi...
* Principles and Best Practices for Post Election Audits The following is an html version of the document with some comments. Principles and Best Practices for...
Note: This article refers to the CVR Cast Vote Record standard being developed under the umbrella of NIST, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. ...
By PAUL LEHTO The purpose of elections is freely choosing our public servants by majority rule elections. The essence of America is self government, recognizing ...
A key element of defending our democracy is ensuring elections that are fair and free of scams. There are many dimensions of this problem. You may have heard a lo...
email to Tim Canova and others on 2019 02 07 I am definitely a supporter of hand marked paper ballots, but not to require that only hand counts be used. I am wor...
Contracts For those who want to get into the weeds ... LA County Contract w/IDEO for design and consultation on new voting system (approved Oct. 21, 2014) https...
GEORGIA: SAVE AND SECURE THE BALLOT IMAGES Ballot images can thwart changes to paper ballots or magically losing or finding new ballots in the recount. Citizens...
A Brief History of Citizens' Oversight Projects I think it may help if I give a thumbnail sketch of the history of this entity. It is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonpro...
The "biblical" lawsuit by Sidney Powell in GA. https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp content/uploads/2020/11/COMPLAINT CJ PEARSON V. KEMP 11.25.2020.pdf Claims in s...
The Arizona Senate, apparently not satisfied with one recount, is close to signing a deal for its second review of Maricopa County’s 2020 general election ballots...
* This is described in recent zoom meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHyUp_o1fB0 * Googledoc of Election Hazards for comment: https://docs.google.com/do...
Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified touch screen Diebold voting machines and told San Diego County to use paper ballots. But guess what? They are using Die...
The Open Canvass Method eliminates most hacking opportunites in our election system, does not need certification, does not care about proprietary or closed source...
Some votes miscounted in primary, officials say By Luis Monteagudo Jr. and Helen Gao UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER April 8, 2004 County officials said yesterday t...
Protecting Election IntegrityResolution Number MAN06.05 WHEREAS: There are serious questions about the security of electronic voting machines, and insecure and u...
Vote probe raises fears over 'fix' '06 Pima County result, electronic system in question by Dennis Wagner Apr. 15, 2009 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic Under the...
SAN DIEGO San Diego County officials said Wednesday that they had hired former Cuyahoga County, Ohio elections Chief Michael Vu as assistant registrar of voters...
This page is under construction! We have many photos, videos, etc. that still need to be processed. In December 2016, a historic state wide recount was started re...
White Paper Read the white paper: * Open Ballot Initiative White Paper, Updated 2017 01 10 Introduction The Open Ballot Initiative (TOBI) is proposed to ret...
PotreroPlanningGroupRecallElection This recall election was significant because it was one of the first elections after Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified...
Summary of articles submitted (Add All) ORIGINS OF PSEPHOS Psephos, inspired by the traditions of democracy, is an emerging nonprofit committed to preventing th...
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Latest News * Registrar of Voters says they don't need to create additional copies of the scanner tapes because the machines are not the "lever type" * Secr...
Tutorial This is the best tutorial so far of this process. HISTORY OF ACTIONS: * June 2016 Sent letters to all 58 counties with some refinements from the pr...
StateElectionDistrictTargetingProcedure This procedure determines election district targets and evaluates past audit compliance. In the following procedure, repla...
Here, we compare The OpenBallotInitiative (TOBI) with a commonly promoted approach, All Hand Counted Paper Ballots (AHCPB) in the precinct. In a nutshell: * B...
* Final TGDC VVSG 08312007.pdf: Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines Intro Chapter 1 * Authored by: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), a c...
Sub projects Latest News This project relates to the issue of Voting Privacy, while also encouraging transparency of the results so the public can easily check t...
This web site is dedicated to enabling citizens to provide needed oversight to our democracy. At present, Citizens Oversight is focused only on deploying AuditEng...