Audits Legislation
Florida Voters Coalition convened the Joint Audit Working Group (JAWG Team) in 2007 and began drafting model post-election audit legislation for Florida. The JAWG Team included members of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections (FSASE), an Advisory Panel of national experts, and members of FVC. Our language was drafted into bills introduced in both the Florida House and Senate during the 2008 session. That bill draft was refined further and, with another few refinements, will be the basis of new legislation in 2009. You can read the last best draft here, along with a legend of the changes made after being introduced.

Audit Observation
Florida Voters Foundation, working with the League of Women Voters of Florida and the American Statistical Association, observed Florida's first post-election audts in the 2008 primary and general elections.

Operation Bravo
Florida Voters Coalition has challenged a dangerous Internet voting scheme currently under review at the Department of State. The project intends to accept electronically transmitted digital ballots into the November Presidential election, delivered over the Internet using software owned by a Spanish company financed in part by private equity venture capital (i.e. anyone on the planet), developed in secret with no ability for the public to review it, conduct peer review, or be heard. We assert that it is illegal, unethical and a threat to national security on multiple grounds. Read more about Operation Bravo and FVC’s challenge here.

Post Election Audit Summit
Following the 2007 Florida legislative session, we saw the need for all stakeholders to better understand all things to do with post-election audits. We knew other states were in a similar position, wanting to pass legislation but not finding clear authority gathered in one place. So we attracted co-sponsors and produced the first of its kind national summit with delegations from 20 states, including 10 Secretaries of State’s offices, many county elections officials, computer scientists, statisticians, advocates, and others. The summit also promoted a new spirit of cooperation between groups sometimes opposed on issues. Our co-sponsors were: The American Statistical Association, The Brennan Center at NYU School of Law, Verified Voting Foundation, Common Cause, and Citizens For Election Integrity Minnesota. Read more about the summit and resources collected since, here.