Verified Voting: Mandatory Manual Audits of Voter-Verified Paper Records

VVPR AND MANDATORY MANUAL AUDITS Map Legend VVPR + statewide manual audits required (21) VVPR required; No audit requirement (11) VVPR not required but in use statewide; No audit requirement (6) * Audit Requirements, but VVPR not in use statewide (4) No VVPR requirement; No audit requirement (8)

The map above shows progress to date in our campaign for verifiable elections. Step 1 of our strategy has been to make sure that there is a paper record of every vote and that voters are able to verify the accuracy of that record before the ballot is cast (that paper record is called a "Voter-Verified Paper Record" or VVPR).

VerifiedVoting.org, our partners, and voters across the country have successfully persuaded the majority of state governments to pass legislation or establish regulations to require VVPR. 32 states, with more than half the U.S. population, now have such a requirement. We need your help to make sure the voters in the remaining 18 states are protected, through Federal or state legislation.

But we need to do even more to ensure that the results of elections are verifiable. Voter-verified paper records are most effective when used as the basis for mandatory manual audits in randomly selected precincts. Step 2 of our strategy is to encourage states to adopt laws or regulations requiring such mandatory manual audits of the VVPRs. As the map above shows, 25 states have such a requirement now. We need your help to pass laws in the remaining 25 states to require such audits.

Help us complete the legislative push toward reliable, secure, verifiable, and transparent elections! Please visit our action center (click here) to turn the whole country green with voter-verified paper records and mandatory manual audits of those records. Click on the map to see our legislation tracking web page.

Note regarding the map above: Colorado, Maryland and Tennessee are shown as having a VVPR requirement because they have enacted VVPR legislation, but these states' requirements will not be fully implemented until after 2008. In the case of Colorado, most counties now use voting systems with VVPR. Arkansas requires VVPR but not in all counties; three counties remain paperless with no deadline for change, so we consider this an incomplete requirement.See the Verifier map for more detail on the voting systems in use nationwide.