Building the People’s Voting System

Category: Announcements

TrustTheVote on GitHub — New Beginnings

    As we start a new phase of election technology development at the TrustTheVote Project, it’s time to correct an oversight about another new beginning — the work that we started last year to move our source code within GitHub. Here’s the where, what, and why. Where The new home of the TrustTheVote Project on … Continued

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Announcing the Launch of VoteStream Beta

Over the past three years we have used this space to document our efforts to create a truly open source, standards based election reporting solution: VoteStream.  At each step we have been guided by the needs of election professional and the ideals of the OSET Foundation: that a critical democracy infrastructure should be verifiable, accurate, … Continued

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Expanding Our Leadership Assures Our Potential

So, by now you may have seen the news.  We were stoked on Tuesday to announce former Facebook executive Chris Kelly has joined our Foundation’s Board of Directors while the former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra has joined as a strategic adviser.  Today, I want to share some more about what this means for us, and … Continued

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A New Name; The Same Mission

Many of you are learning the news, and its true: our Foundation’s name is changing, but the mission remains the same.  Here’s the story. I’d like to officially introduce you all to our new name: the Open Source Election Technology Foundation, or as we’re referring to it, the “OSET Foundation” (“Oh-Set”).  And if you haven’t … Continued

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The “VoteStream Files” A Summary

The TrustTheVote Project Core Team has been hard at work on the Alpha version of VoteStream, our election results reporting technology. They recently wrapped up a prototype phase funded by the Knight Foundation, and then forged ahead a bit, to incorporate data from additional counties, provided by by participating state or local election officials after … Continued

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A New Opening for “Open”

I’m still feeling a bit stunned by recent events: the IRS has finally put us at the starting point that we had reasonably hoped to be at about 5 years ago. Since then, election tech dysfunction hasn’t gone away; U.S. election officials have less funding than ever to run elections; there are more requirements than … Continued

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The 2013 Annual Elections Verification Conference Opens Tonight

If its Wednesday 13.March it must be Atlanta.  And that means the opening evening reception for the Elections Verification Network‘s 2013 Annual Conference.  We’re high on this gathering of elections officials, experts, academicians and advocates because it represents a unique interdisciplinary collaboration of technologists, policy wonks and legal experts, and even politicians all with a … Continued

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