Part 2: Shows how to take a CVR and convert into a BIA (Ballot Image Audit) database by importing that ballot image and the single CVRs in the spreadsheet by precinct to verify the election and prove that the results are correct. AUDIT USA, as an organization, has no interest in who wins any election. Our sole interest is in Accurate Count of all votes, and that the result is verifiable. Transparency is characterized by visibility or accessibility of information. Through actually seeing the ballot images the outcome of the election is READILY understood! Transparency is comfortable and is an important antidote to unverifiable claims of fraud or manipulation. What we learned is that the problems with elections are complicated, However, the solutions are simple. It’s called Transparency with Redundancy and Verification. In this video I will explain the importance of the cast vote records spreadsheet / database, and how I use this tool to help verify results. We at Audit have been getting CVRs for many years. In Pima County, Tucson, 2007 we won our first case that led to the largest release of electronic databases in the history of voting using computers. We clearly proved that these records are public records. The official results and the canvas report come from this cast vote record database, and with the ballot image and the single cast for record report. We have an end-to-end system for verifying Elections. Presently I have the distinction to be the only person that we know of that has been sued by a county for asking for public records. To allow Santa Cruz to successfully sue a citizen requester simply for requesting a public record would turn the entire concept of public records on its head. It would have a chilling effect on public willingness and ability to even ask for government records, much less obtain them! AUDIT USA and I, and you have a right under state law to request government records. If Santa Cruz County does not want to provide a certain record, Arizona state law then requires that they must provide a statutory reason for withholding that record! If the county doesn’t know of any statute that prevents providing the CVR database, then that’s the counties problem! Not AUDIT USA or my problem. For the county to ask for legal fees on top of violating my rights to request public records is frivolous, brazen, and ludicrous. Santa Cruz County board of supervisors should be sanction for filing frivolous lawsuit. Now back to the purpose of this video to Illustrate the important on how one can use the CVR database with other records to verify Election Results. You will see what I’m talking about with this CVR database Which by the way comes from Santa Cruz County November 2020 general election. Just filed on Sept 12, 2022; Plaintiff’s final reply and summarizing the case in Arizona Court of Appeals Division one, Court Case # 1 CA-CV 22-0254 AUDIT-USA v. MARICOPA COUNTY. Link to AUDIT’s reply to Maricopa County Answering Brief: https://bit.ly/3QD9COy “I’m hopeful we will win this case because the facts are with us and transparency in our elections is vital for democracy,” said John Brakey, co-founder and director of AUDIT USA. “It’s important that the public be able to see the ballot images from every election to increase voters’ trust in election results.” Ballot images are a picture of every ballot cast in an election. The images are completely anonymous because ballots are anonymous once they leave a voter’s hands, so the images do not reveal the identity of voters. The images are an invaluable tool for verifying election results and can be sorted by candidate, by precinct, by overvotes or undervotes, and in a variety of other ways. While Maricopa County is trying to prevent public access to ballot images, other places such as San Francisco, one of the largest voting jurisdictions in the United States, posts all its ballot images online for the public to be able to view. Audit USA won an important legal victory in 2016 with its lawsuit to require all Arizona counties to retain ballot images for 22 months after every election. As a result of AUDIT’s court case, all Arizona counties now preserve ballot images. Following this court decision, the Arizona legislature passed a law, § 16-625, to protect the original ballot image files from unauthorized access. While this law was a good step to protect the original images, Maricopa County has wrongly chosen to interpret it to mean that copies of the original ballot files cannot be given to the public, something that the legislature did not intend to happen. AUDIT’S lawsuit to release ballot images to the public is a “de novo” (first-of-a-kind) case because the Arizona courts have never been asked before to interpret Arizona statute § 16-625. link to rest of this important story. PRESS RELEASE: https://bit.ly/3RQV0N6 The Fight for Transparency and How to make Elections Transparent, Trackable and Publicly Verified