Marcello Rollando talks Elections with Transparency Advocate John R. Brakey

John Roberts Brakey is an elections investigator, election integrity advocate and former business owner. He is a co-founder of AUDIT AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity and Transparency in Elections), which is expanding to become AUDIT-USA.

Under John’s leadership, AUDIT-AZ spearheaded a successful Arizona election challenge. The plaintiffs succeeded in gaining access to “proprietary” election materials which helped them prove that a local bond election had been rigged by individuals with official access to election machinery.

John and AUDIT-AZ have played a major role in making Arizona elections more secure through advocacy and litigation.

Brakey filed a legal challenge to the 2016 Arizona Presidential Primary election for targeted disenfranchisement of parts of the population heavily supportive of candidate Bernie Sanders.

Brakey has recently developed a new method of election verification, which Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org has dubbed “The Brakey Method”: mobilizing the public to use digital ballot images created by digital scan voting machines to verify or challenge official vote counts.

Election transparency and public oversight are the goals that drive John to travel all over the country speaking and educating people about the dangers in our current election system and what members of the community can do about it.

A dedicated gadfly, John is determined to make sure no election insider or outside hacker can manipulate an election with impunity (exemption from punishment). Making it more difficult to rig or hack an election without getting caught and punished will serve as a deterrent to future election crimes.