Laura Downing a forensic auditor and election investigator penned the letter below to the RNC to share her concerns about election integrity in South Carolina and the nation. Here are some of her salient points:
- All states need to ensure that no ineligible voters especially illegal immigrants are registered to vote. How can we be assured that our rolls are clean?
- Transparency must be increased by providing key data and reports to citizens and inexpensive voter rolls as well as the ability for poll observers to have full access to all stages of the eleciton process. For example, currently observers aren’t even allowed to view the ballots during the hand-count audits so how can they confirm that the count is correct if it is not done publically like our constituion calls for.
- Third party vendors should be eliminated where possible as they aren’t subject to citizen FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests.
- Ideally electronic voting should be replaced with handmarked, handcounted paper ballots.
Read the full letter below: