Bipartisan Action to Secure Elections (BASE) is a resource for the movement to defend American elections from cyber fraud and hacking by promoting paper based, transparent and verified vote counting.
Defending democracy is a core value that transcends partisan divisions. We must unite to end vulnerable “black box” voting and bring our ballots back into the light.
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FUNDING FOR STATES
In this year’s Federal budget process, the House has proposed $600 million dollars for Election Security in 2019-2020 spending. Contact your U.S. Senator to support this appropriation.
BIPARTISAN FEDERAL LEGISLATION
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its recommendations on election security and concluded that these essential safeguards are needed:
Requiring paper ballots
Banning wireless components
Implementing statistically sound audits of election results
Such basic practices are embedded in legislation like the SAFE Act and the bipartisan Secure Elections Act. Contact your U.S. Senator to support this legislation.
END THE CORRUPTION
PRIVATIZED DiGITAL ELECTIONS
SECRET SOFTWARE
UNDETECTABLE HACKING
FOREIGN ACCESS TO OUR VOTES
Bring Our BALLOTS Back to the Light
VOTER MARKED Paper Ballots
Manual PUBLIC Audits
Transparency & Oversight
Across the nation, citizens, organizations, lawmakers, computer scientists and elections officials are putting country before party to achieve achieve common sense, urgently needed election reforms.
We support Federal reforms and funding that protect state’s rights while promoting their immediate implementation of electoral best practices, including voter verified, paper based voting systems that are secured through robust public audits.
States must:
End the use of paperless Touchscreen voting machines and reestablish voter-verified paper ballots as the official record of voter intent.
Safeguard against internet-related security vulnerabilities and assure the ability to detect attacks.
Require robust post-election hand-count audits before certification of final election results.
FreedomWorks supports the Secure Elections Act, the PAVE Act, and the PAPER Act.
Georgia is poised to become the first state to rely entirely on electronic ballot marking devices. While this may seem like a simple government procurement issue, the passage of the voting machine reform bill provides a sweetheart deal to voting machine vendors while setting aside election security and integrity.
Acting President, The London Center,
Adviser to the 2020 campaign of Donald Trump.
“President Trump was right: We should opt for paper ballots to ensure that we don’t have to worry about hacking. In this case, the simple solution is the most effective. As a respected member of the cybersecurity community and the Republican Party, I cannot support HB316.”
February 27, 2019 - Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger is circulating a cost analysis of hand-marked paper ballots that is profoundly misleading and wildly inflates the costs of conducting elections with hand-marked paper ballots as compared with the cost of electronic ballot marking devices to mark all ballots.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on.
Fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Kemp’s successor as secretary of state, has been pursuing the same approach to the job since taking over in January: Ignore election security experts and malign any advice coming from Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60% have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand-new electoral systems.
But there’s a problem: Many of these new systems still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers.
Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction.
ES&S chief executive Tom Burt confirmed the news in an op-ed.
TechCrunch understands the decision was made around the time that four senior Democratic lawmakers demanded to know why ES&S, and two other major voting machine makers, were still selling decade-old machines known to contain security flaws.
Daniel Savickas, who lobbies Congress on election-related issues for the conservative FreedomWorks, blasted the Senate majority leader for letting legislation languish: “Unfortunately, all Senator McConnell wants to do is judges these days,” he said.
FreedomWorks has advocated a more limited federal footprint, but Mr. Savickas said that “there is a role for Congress” to provide money for states to transition to paper ballot backups and to conduct “risk-limiting audits” after elections.
