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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 11:54 AM Nov 2016

PETITION: Demand An Audit Of The 2016 Presidential Election Verified Voting

Demand An Audit Of The 2016 Presidential Election
Verified Voting

Sign this petition
155,277 supporters
44,723 needed to reach 200,000

The FBI determined some months ago that hacking, originating from Russia, was having an influence on our electoral process. These hackers interfered with our presidential election through attempted and successful penetration of email and voter registration databases, among other systems. This created fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the safety of our electoral processes.

Computers tabulated the vast majority of the 129 million votes cast in the presidential election, and polls were wildly off. Did hackers manipulate the results by compromising voting equipment? Did other problems, glitches, or errors affect the outcome?

There's a simple, relatively inexpensive way to find out: audit the electronic results against the paper ballots used by about 75% of U.S. voters.

American democracy depends on public trust of our electoral process, and public trust requires a trustworthy process.

Please sign to demand that election officials double-check the electronic results by conducting a "risk-limiting" audit of the presidential election in every state that uses paper ballots.

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Verified Voting Foundation is a non-partisan non-profit organization that advocates for public policy that promotes accuracy, transparency and verifiability of elections. We believe the integrity and strength of our democracy relies on citizen’s trust that each vote be counted as cast. Our primary concern lies in ensuring that the means for verifying election outcomes are in place and used for that purpose. We also focus on the reliability and security of voting systems. We connect those who are making and implementing policy that shapes how we vote to those who understand the particular risks associated with the emerging digital landscape, particularly on-line and electronic voting.

This petition will be delivered to:

Secretaries of State
Election Officials
Governors

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https://www.verifiedvoting.org/
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PETITION: Demand An Audit Of The 2016 Presidential Election Verified Voting (Original Post) Coyotl Nov 2016 OP
I've never been able to sign this, either on change or care2. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #1
screw the petition jodymarie aimee Nov 2016 #2
That doesn't seem like very many supporters. femmocrat Nov 2016 #3
I missed that one. nt. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #4

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
1. I've never been able to sign this, either on change or care2.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 12:07 PM
Nov 2016

Last edited Thu Nov 24, 2016, 11:33 AM - Edit history (1)

I had a couple back and forth e-mail exchanges with John D from VV about it.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. That doesn't seem like very many supporters.
Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:17 PM
Nov 2016

There was a petition earlier that had over 4 million signatures. What was that for?

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