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House Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and passing both largely along party lines. The effort was the latest attempt by congressional Republicans to pass the Save America Act, which would ban mail-in ballots and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and cast ballots. While the Trump administration has cast the bill as necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting and combat election fraud, voting rights advocates say there’s no evidence of widespread election tampering and warn the bill could disenfranchise swaths of eligible voters ahead of November’s midterm elections. Chris Stein, The Guardian.
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Transparency by the dashboard light
Leon Co., Fla. dashboard offers window to audits
By Mark Earley, supervisor of elections
Leon County, Florida
On election night, the public watches vote totals roll in on the news. What most voters never see is the careful work that comes after, when election officials confirm that every ballot was counted exactly as the voter intended.
After each election, the Leon County Elections Office runs every voted ballot through a second, independent tabulator. The results from that retabulation audit are compared against the original count, contest by contest. In our 2022 primary and general elections, the two systems matched at a rate above 99.99%.
That fact should build confidence in elections, but, for too long, much of that work happened out of public view. Voters were asked to trust a process they could not easily examine for themselves.
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