Delete the Voting Machines !
Welcome to the Coalition of Concerned Voters of Ohio (CCVO) website. We are a grassroots organization dedicated to ensuring the integrity of our elections by getting rid of all electronic voting machines and adopting hand-marked and hand-counted paper ballots.
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No Independent Security Testing
The Ohio Secretary of State refuses to allow independent experts to inspect voting machines for security flaws found in similar machines used in other states.
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Internet Connection Denied, but Proof Withheld
Claims that machines are “air-gapped” and free from wireless modems can’t be verified by the public because test results are classified as a state secret.
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No Transparency in Software
Voting machine software is proprietary and not tested for hidden malicious code. Forensic audits in other states have exposed vote manipulation.
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Voters Can’t Truly Verify Their Vote
Whether using touchscreens or paper ballots, voters cannot confirm that their vote was accurately recorded once scanned or converted to QR codes or machine language.
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Full Post-Election Audit denied by Secretary LaRose
Checking 5% of the ballots is not an audit but a "spot" check. While the Secretary claims 99.9% audit accuracy, he denied volunteer citizens in a rural county the right to hand-count less than 7,000 ballots in the 2024 election to verify the machine count. Why?
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If we can’t verify the machines are safe, we can’t trust the results.
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👉 Had Enough? Sign The Petition Below.
County Petition: Say "No" to Voting Machines in Your County
What Is This Petition About?
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We're gathering signatures to place a countywide vote on the ballot—giving voters in your county the choice to reject the use of electronic voting machines, marking devices, and tabulating equipment in favor of hand-marked, hand-counted ballots.
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How the Petition Process Works.
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Step-by-Step:
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Collect signatures from registered voters in your county.
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You need 2% of the number of voters from the 2022 gubernatorial election.
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Submit the petition to your County Board of Elections by August 4, 2026 to be on the 2026 November ballot.
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Use Ohio SoS Form No. 6_D (Download below.)
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We Need Volunteers!
We need 5 volunteers per county to act as local organizers.
Circulator Rules:
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Must witness each signature in person.
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Can submit partially filled forms (cross out blank lines and note how many signatures are included).
2025 County Petition Status
Petition Background. Ohio citizens were never given the opportunity to vote on adopting voting machines. The statute for adopting voting machines (R.C. 3506.02) gives the county Board of Elections (BOE), the county commissioners, and the voters equal voice in adopting voting machines. However, over twenty years ago when the statute was made law, every Ohio BOE unilaterally chose to adopt voting machines which prevented the issue from being placed on the ballot to see what the public wanted. On top of this, the statute was deliberately written so that once the machines were adopted, there was no provision in the statute to remove them. It’s like being in a bad marriage with no provision to get a divorce.
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​August 12, 2025: Secretary of State LaRose Blocks Seneca and Monroe counties from using Form 6-D. Recent attempts to place the question of adopting voting machines on this November’s ballot was blocked by Secretray LaRose. On August 11, 2025, petitions were filed by a group of citizens in Monroe and Seneca counties at their Board of Elections (BOE) to place the issue of adopting voting machines on this November’s ballot to see if voters wanted to continue using voting machines or discontinue their use and adopt hand-marked, hand-counted ballots instead. The Secretary claimed that the SoS petition Form 6-D used by the petitioners was not designed to remove voting machines, but only to adopt them. The petitioners disagreed and filed a protest letter claiming that Form 6-D was not only to be used for initial adoption of voting machines, but also to be used to allow voters to decide if they want to continue using them. The group is currently pursuing legal options.
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September 5, 2025. Seneca County Board of Elections under scrutiny for banning voting machine critics from election roles, stirring free speech concerns. The Cleveland.com news (click here​ to see article) reports that the board of elections for Seneca County has barred people who are "publicly or actively working against the use of voting machines" from working at election sites in any role. The timing of the decision suggests the new rule is a response to the recent petition drive to put a county-wide referendum on the November ballot to eliminate voting machines and return to paper ballots. This action appears be a clear violation of constitutional rights granted under the First Amendment.
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👉 Join the effort today. Sign up, lead, or share the petition in your area!
Ohio Officials Dismiss Warnings About Voting Machine Security Flaws
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Over the past year, the Coalition of Concerned Voters of Ohio (CCVO) has repeatedly raised concerns to officials about the security vulnerabilities in Ohio's voting machines. Despite these warnings, officials have shown little interest in addressing the potential risks.
Ohio Voting Machines May Not Be Secure For 2026 Election!
Although Ohio law prohibits voting machines to be connected to the internet, many of Ohio's voting machines may contain wireless modems which would allow them to be connected to the internet through mobile cellular networks.
The Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners (BVME) is supposed to test that the machines do not contain wireless modems, but when CCVO asked the BVME and the Secretary of State's office to provide documented proof of this, they failed to do so.
One possible conclusion is that the test wasn't done and our voting systems are in danger of being exploited by malicious actors who could manipulate our elections.
Ohio voters demand transparency!
Government Overreach: Federal Influence in Ohio's Elections
Our case study of federal overreach and how Ohio gave away its birthright to run elections.
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Breaking News
Can Hand-Counting Ballots Be Relied On To Replace The Machines?
​​​​If voting machines can't be trusted, is hand -counting paper ballots a feasible alternative?
​Those who defend keeping the voting machines say that there really isn't a suitable replacement for them. They scoff at hand-counting paper ballots as an archaic concept, saying "It would take too much time" or "It's too prone to human error." The fact is that no official in Ohio has actually done a feasibility study on hand-counting ballots to come to a rational and unbiased conclusion. It turns out that it is a time-proven concept that has been adopted by many nations in the world and was the way ballots were counted in Ohio for its first 130 years.
