 | Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails (or other paper ballots/records of votes).
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| | No voting system today is perfect, but more and more experts are coming to agree that the most secure electronic voting machine currently available is an optical-scan voting machine. With op-scan machines, voters fill in oval blanks on a paper ballot which is then scanned by the machine. This provides a voter-verified paper ballot which is easy to audit. Adding a ballot-marking device makes an op-scan system accessible for people who are disabled.
Note: To insure voting integrity, op-scan ballots should be precinct counted (counted in each voting precinct) rather than centrally counted.
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| | Public Random Audits of Voting Machines both on and after election-day.
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| | Early Voting.
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| | No-Excuse Absentee Ballots.
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| | The ability to vote via absentee ballot just because you want to instead of only if you are ill or out-of-town.
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| | Election-Day Registration.
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| | Making Election Day the first SATURDAY in November, or observing Election Day as a national holiday.
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| | Suggested to me by DeForest Soaries, Jr, the first Chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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| | Voter Hall of Fame (Pennsylvania).
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| | Pennsylvania's Voter Hall of Fame honors Pennsylvanians who have voted in every November election for at least 50 consecutive years. Currently the Voter Hall of Fame has more than 13,500 members. Their names are recorded in a book that is part of a permanent Pennsylvania Voter Exhibit at the Voter Hall of Fame in Harrisburg. |
| | | The right to vote is a privilege, but also a duty to ensure that our democracy remains strong for generations to come.
Pedro Cortes, Pennsylvania Secretary of State
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| | Voting Rights Institute (Ohio).
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| | Ohio's innovative Voting Rights Institute brings voting activists and election officials together at the same table in the Secretary of State's office to resolve election problems and devise election policy jointly.
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| | Election Transparency.
A Detailed State Post-Election Report
Election-Experience Reporting
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| | Businesses Giving Employees Election Day Off To Allow Them To Serve As Pollworkers.
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| | County/State/Independent Websites That Enable Individuals to Determine Whether They Are Registered To Vote and the Location of Their Polling Place.
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| | I'll be naming some of the best here soon.
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