The architect of Colorado’s Voting System wrote in his resignation letter. “With sadness and disappointment, I am resigning from the board of Verified Voting. I believe that Verified Voting has lost its way. It has been providing cover for inherently untrustworthy voting systems—and the officials who bought them, the companies that make them, and any officials who might contemplate buying them in the future—by conducting ‘risk-limiting audits’ of untrustworthy paper records, creating the false and misleading impression that relying on untrustworthy paper for a RLA can confirm election outcomes (and debasing the meaning of ‘RLA’ in the process).” UC Berkeley statistician Philip B. Stark resigned from Verified Voting’s board. In his letter, he accused the group of “providing cover for inherently untrustworthy voting systems” by promoting Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs, which he invented) on paper records from ballot-marking devices that he viewed as unreliable, creating a false sense of security. Verified Voting, a key advocate for paper ballots and RLAs, receives funding through progressive pass-throughs like the Tides Foundation ($150k+ in 2024), which has received tens of millions from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Board chair Barbara Simons has ties to the Democracy Alliance donor network. This layered structure funnels big-donor money with limited direct traceability. The wheels are falling off the bus for Jena and Soros. #winning #copolitics #colorado @milliman @AsheinAmerica
