A new election program being used in Ada County is getting attention from states across the country and has the potential to put to rest false claims about stolen elections.
Ada County Clerk Trent Tripple unveiled the Ballot Verifier program in April, and since then, he said, his phone has been busy.
“A lot of people have taken interest in this,” Tripple told me in a phone interview. “It’s kind of fun to see how easy this is for people to look at and go, ‘It just makes sense.’”
He said the Nebraska Legislature held a hearing on it last week, and states such as Kentucky, Washington, Arizona and several in New England are looking into the program. Tarrant County, Texas, which includes Fort Worth, adopted Ballot Verifier last month .
The Ballot Verifier program allows anyone to look at a pdf version of every single ballot cast in an election, along with how the vote was recorded, what’s known as the “cast vote record.” Users can sort based on contest and drill down to the precinct level, broken down by early voting, absentee voting and in-person Election Day voting.