By Ohio Joint Audit Working Group (working with CASE Ohio)

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner published directives that led to the first post election audits in Ohio. Directive 2008-39 specified voluntary pilot audits after the March Primary election and Directive 2008-113 called for all counties to do audits for the Presidential contest after the November General election. Performing regular post election audits is a vitally important step in measuring and improving election processes in Ohio as well as restoring voter confidence in these processes. Secretary Brunner and all Boards of Elections (BOE’s) that carried out these audits are to be commended for their efforts.

The Audit Review includes

• Summary of observer comments by County
• Findings and Recommendations based on the observer comments
• A review of Directive 2008-113

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By the Election Audits Task Force of the League of Women Voters of the United States

Introduction

A fair and accurate election process is essential to any democracy. After the 2000 election, in which voters experienced significant problems, many people came to doubt that the process was either fair or accurate. Consequently, significant changes in voting technology and in election laws and procedures were introduced. The results have been mixed. For example, numerous reputable reports have documented security, reliability and verifiability issues with electronic voting machines. Voters and advocates have questioned both the validity of specific election results and the integrity of the entire election process. Strengthening requirements for reviews of election procedures, testing voting equipment and auditing vote results can go a long way to restoring confidence in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of election results.

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