Honest Voting

Just a quick backgrounder today.

Here’s what the OSDV says about themselves:

The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) is a volunteer community of the best and brightest technology and policy experts in the computer technology sector including members of academia, commercial, and public administration segments, and is led and managed by a small full-time team of highly experienced technologists serving as architects and project leads.

Two Silicon Valley technologists, E. John Sebes and Gregory Miller, founded the group to tackle an insufficiently studied question: the lack of technical guidelines and specifications for determining truly high assurance, high veracity voting devices.

They’re using the open-source community model to attack this problem. Everything they do, including any software or hardware they create, will be free. (”In the future, OSDV may offer some public services that leverage reference technology we develop, but the work product of OSDV will remain free.”)

If you’re interested in getting involved, they invite you to read their FAQ and get in touch.

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