{"id":442,"date":"2020-08-09T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2023-08-22T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:57:05","slug":"pa-general-election-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=442","title":{"rendered":"ES&#038;S ExpressVote XL Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Citizens for Better Elections has settled its lawsuit over the Pennsylvania certification of the ES&amp;S ExpressVote XL voting machine, which is used for in-person voting in Philadelphia, Northampton, and Cumberland counties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the litigation was pending, ES&amp;S released updated software to address some of the machine&#8217;s many flaws. The settlement requires the counties to use this software and to implement additional security procedures required by the Secretary&#8217;s re-examination, in time for the 2024 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The settlement also provides unprecedented public access to reports about the real-world performance and malfunctions of voting systems in all Pennsylvania counties and guarantees robust public access to future voting system examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freespeechforpeople.org\/advocates-win-security-transparency-improvements-in-pennsylvania-elections-settlement-reached-with-secretary-of-state-schmidt-in-voting-machine-lawsuit\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press coverage<\/strong>:<br>The New Yorker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/fani-williss-indictment-of-donald-trump-and-a-voting-system-breach\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/fani-williss-indictment-of-donald-trump-and-a-voting-system-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Votebeat: <a href=\"https:\/\/pennsylvania.votebeat.org\/2023\/8\/18\/23837562\/voting-machine-malfunction-reports-public-database-election-lawsuit\">https:\/\/pennsylvania.votebeat.org\/2023\/8\/18\/23837562\/voting-machine-malfunction-reports-public-database-election-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Associated Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voting-machines-elections-pennsylvania-security-malfunctions-8ec36aa79e2184a553653e707361aa0a\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voting-machines-elections-pennsylvania-security-malfunctions-8ec36aa79e2184a553653e707361aa0a<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join our Facebook group: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/CBElections\/\">Citizens for Better Elections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cbelections\">@cbelections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The header image for this site is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/notbrucelee\/5139407571\/\">a photograph by Justin Grimes<\/a>, licensed under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons by-sa license<\/a>. We use it with gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens for Better Elections has settled its lawsuit over the Pennsylvania certification of the ES&amp;S ExpressVote XL voting machine, which is used for in-person voting in Philadelphia, Northampton, and Cumberland counties. As the litigation was pending, ES&amp;S released updated software to address some of the machine&#8217;s many flaws. The settlement requires the counties to use &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/?page_id=442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ES&#038;S ExpressVote XL Settlement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizensforbetterelections.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}