Ellen H. Brodsky is the founder of the Broward Election Reform Coalition and is a member of the Florida Voters Coalition. She is a member of the League of Women Voters, the Palm Beach Coalition for Election Reform, and the national VoteTrustUSA leadership group.

 

Ellen is a longtime Election Integrity activist, advocating Voter-Verified Paper Ballots since 2001. She has opposed Broward's purchase of untested, unverifiable, and unreliable Touch Screen Voting Machines from the start.

 

Ellen served as an Election Clerk and Voting System Technician since 2002.

 

As a key member of the Florida Voters Coalition in 2007, Ellen mobilized thousands of Florida voters to "Dump the DREs" (Touch Screens) and pass Voter-Verified Paper Ballot Legislation aimed at decertifying them in Florida.

 

Ellen also created the Parallel Election Projects, a citizen-run grassroots vote auditing program - the first of its kind in the entire United States. Ellen's efforts have caught on throughout the state of Florida and into the rest of the country. In January 2008 she coordinated Broward's historic ProjectVoteCount.com, the nation's first official citizen exit-poll, inspired by the Parallel Election Projects.

 

Ellen is best known for her leadership and unflagging dedication. She has championed numerous election monitoring efforts in Broward County, including acting as Broward coordinator for both VerifiedVoting.org during the November 2004 election and Pollworkersfordemocracy.org in 2006.

 

Ellen believes that citizen ownership of our elections is essential for a transparent, participatory democracy. For years she has fought for a Citizen Advisory Board to aid in administering the election process.

 

Ellen supports manual audits of elections before certification as well as innovative voting methods that ensure a consensus on election accuracy, pilot programs for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots, Instant Runoff Voting, and Open Source Voting alternatives. Ellen opposes certifying any election that cannot be proven to be accurate.

 

After years of participation in workshops and seminars across the country and lobbying Congress for paper ballot legislation, Ellen is nationally renowned as an election reform leader representing both Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

 

Ellen Brodsky has been a frequent guest on Voice of the Voters.