Patrick Colbeck

“One of the most mysterious, low-profile, covert, shadowy, questionable mechanisms of American democracy is the American vote count” James and Ken Collier Authors of “Votescam” The United States election infrastructure is a decentralized system of over 10,000 jurisdictions that, in practice, relies on a highly consolidated pipeline of private vendors and data aggregators to report […]

Elections do not run on slogans; they run on evidence. At the center of that evidence is chain of custody – the documented, continuous control of ballots, machines, poll books, media, and the digital records that support reported results. When that chain is clear, complete, and independently reviewable, election officials can actually prove that materials