Verified Voting Foundation

That’s a wrap from Team Verified Voting at the Election Verification Network's 2025 conference! ?? We loved connecting with everyone and discussing all things election technology and security—see you next year! ????? #EVN25

Fantastic discussion with our Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, C.Jay Coles, MPA, alongside Dr. Audrey Malagon and Dr. Stephanie Singer at the "Effective Technical Advocacy" panel! C.Jay outlined key states where we're actively involved in improving election security and verifiability. ?? #EVN25

Our President & CEO, Pamela Smith, virtually moderated the “Effective Advocacy” panel featuring Common Cause’s Susannah Goodman and Brennan Center for Justice's Gowri Ramachandran. ??? During the discussion, she shared one of our most popular tools: The Verifier!?

At #EVN25, the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE) panel on election officials and law enforcement highlighted their shared mission: serving communities and ensuring safe, secure elections despite being understaffed and under-resourced. Thank you, LaTasha Hill (Brennan Center for Justice), for moderating, and Tina Barton (The Elections Group) and Chance Walkama, MBA, Laramie County, Wyoming, for sharing your insights.?

?? Today, the Election Verification Network honored our Communications Director, Corrie Emerson, with the 2025 Advocacy Achievement Award for her exceptional work championing election integrity, transparency, security, and accessibility. Congratulations Corrie! We also want to send a huge congratulations to fellow honoree Liz Lattimore Iacobucci of Common Cause! Your dedication to fair and accessible elections is inspiring. Honored to celebrate both of these incredible advocates! #EVN25

"Let the noise be noise. We’ve got work to do." Meagan Wolfe, Admin of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), kicked off the EVN Conference with a keynote on how WEC supports local election officials—and how part of election officials' jobs is learning how to manage the noise. #EVN25

This week's executive order would undermine state control, impose contradictory requirements, and disregard the costs and timelines of updating voting systems. Read our full statement: https://lnkd.in/eeyH6F97

??Team Verified Voting is thrilled to be part of the Election Verification Network (EVN) 2025 Conference: Walking the Tightrope: Improving Election Resilience Amidst Tension. Follow along tomorrow & Friday as we share key insights & highlights! See how we're participating below?? 1?? Big news! Our very own Communications Director, Corrie Emerson, will receive the 2025 Advocacy Achievement Award for her outstanding work championing election integrity. ???? 2?? C.Jay Coles, MPA, our Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, will join Dr. Stephanie Singer and Dr. Audrey Malagon on the "Effective Technical Advocacy" panel to share insights on advocating for technical topics, like election audits and more! ????? ?3?? Non-voting election technologies are fundamental to our elections! Senior Policy Associate Saige Draeger will take the stage with experts from Cloud Security Partners & Enhanced Voting for a crucial conversation on "Verifying Non-Voting Election Technology." ?? #EVN25

Now is not the time to scale back critical election security efforts. Yet, recent federal actions risk undermining years of progress in securing our election infrastructure against cyberattacks, foreign influence, and disinformation. In a new op-ed, Verified Voting President and CEO Pamela Smith, alongside League of Women Voters Chief of External Affairs Adam A. and expert Paul Rosenzweig, warn of the urgent need to maintain federal support for election security. Read the full piece in Newsweek: https://lnkd.in/egTc7Xjh.

???This week, Maine launched its first-ever post-election audit pilot to boost election security and transparency! The die roll pictured generated a 20-digit seed to randomly select ballots for audit. Verified Voting was on-site observing the process alongside our friends League of Women Voters of Maine!