open-source-voting-systems

If we can land a spaceship on the moon with precision accuracy then we should be able to count votes with precision accuracy.

Here is list of open source voting systems and related ideas/materials that I have been gathering over the years. This probably should be in Wikipedia at some point. PRs welcome and anyone interested in helping review and merge!

Specification

1. https://gitlab.com/elijahlynn/open-election-voting-specification (WIP)

Organizations

1. Open Voting Consortium http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
2. OSET Institute (Open Source Election Technology) http://www.osetfoundation.org/ https://trustthevote.org/
3. California Association of Voting Officials http://www.cavo-us.org/

Known Efforts (past & present)

City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) http://sfgov.org/elections/request-information-rfi-new-voting-system

RFI http://sfgov.org/elections/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/RFI_VotingSystem.pdf

Notable responses:

1. CAVO (California Association of Voting Officials) http://sfgov.org/elections/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/20150820_CAVO.pdf
2. OSET Institute (Open Source Election Technology) http://sfgov.org/elections/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/20150828_OSET.pdf
3. Alan Dechert http://sfgov.org/elections/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/rfi/20150828_Dechert.pdf (fantastic read)

CHVote - Swiss/Switzerland E-voting system > https://republique-et-canton-de-geneve.github.io/chvote-1-0/index-en.html

Hacker News discussion > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13175388

https://www.wired.com/story/dana-debeauvoir-texas-county-clerk-voting-tech-revolution/
https://github.com/microsoft/electionguard

Research/Papers/Simulations

To Build a Better Ballot by Nicky Case

http://ncase.me/ballot (prototypes/simulations)

Building Reliable Voting Machine Software by Ka-Ping Yee

http://zesty.ca/pubs/yee-phd.pdf (basis for Open Voting Consortium)

Remotegrity: Design and Use of an End-to-End Verifiable Remote Voting System

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~clark/papers/2013_acns.pdf

https://schicks.github.io/posts/visualizing-voting-systems/

Notable People Interested

• Alan Dechert
• Nicky Case
• Ka-Ping Yee