From The Federalist:
…Combined with the altering of state election laws through unconstitutional means, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the 2020 contest have resulted in many voters feeling uneasy about the security of America’s elections.
In spite of such distrust and confusion, however, one increasingly notable election integrity group is seeking to usher in a new era of transparency to election systems nationwide and help restore Americans’ trust in the electoral process. Known as the Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), the group aims to provide voters with critical information by ranking states based on how transparent they’re being with their data and overall election operations, such as the use of ballot drop boxes and private money in elections.
“If we’re going to have a democracy, we have to have accurate and confidence-inspiring elections,” VRF President Doug Truax told The Federalist. “That creates good self-governance, but you can’t govern [when] you can’t tell what’s going on in the election. … We have to have 100 percent transparency in the election system. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this cycle we’re in.”…
…At the heart of VRF’s election integrity efforts is VoteRef.com, a website launched in August 2021 dedicated to providing “public access to official government data pertaining to elections, including voter registration rolls, with a goal of encouraging greater voter participation in all fifty states.” According to Truax, one of the key objectives of VoteRef.com is for “every state [to] get perfect scores on their [VRF] scorecards” regarding their “data transparency” and election operations.
“We do want every state to put their information up online 24/7 and update it instantaneously,” he said. If “all 50 states and the District of Columbia [had] all their [voter roll data]” updated “in real time,” there’d be “no need for VoteRef.com because they would be doing it themselves. But that doesn’t exist at all.”…