The Verified Voting Foundation is a non-governmental, nonpartisan organization founded in 2004 by David L. Dill, a computer scientist from Stanford University, focused on how technology impacts the administration of US elections.
Verified Voting partners with an array of organizations and coalitions to help coordinate post-election audits, tabletop exercises, and election protection work on a state and local level.
The Verifier is the most comprehensive publicly available set of data related to voting equipment usage in the United States.
The Verifier is used by election officials, academics, organizations, the news-media, and general public as a source of information about voting technology.
[6][7] Since its inception, the Verifier has supported a number of initiatives including national election protection operations, state advocacy, policy making, reporting, and congressional research inquiries.
[8][9] To maintain the database, Verified Voting liaises with election officials, monitors local news stories, and researches certification documents.
[10] Verified Voting advises state and local jurisdictions to help them "implement best practices for election security."
In 2019 and 2020, the organization offered feedback on the adoption of new voting machines in California, New York, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, as well as other states, advocating in all instances for the use of voter-verified paper ballots.
"[19] The organization notes that with mobile voting, there is no way to determine the security of "the actual device that voters cast their votes on...The voter’s device may already be corrupted with malware or viruses that could interfere with ballot transmission or even spread that malware to the computer at the elections office on the receiving end of the online ballot.
RLAs accomplish this by checking a "random sample of voter-verifiable paper ballots, seeking evidence that the reported election outcome was correct, if it was.