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TRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, VETERAN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE EDWARD The OSET Institute announced today that Edward Perez, formerly Director of Product Management for voting system vendor Hart InterCivic® has joined the OSET Institute’s leadership team, as Global Director of Technology.In this role, Edward will direct technology research and development, while serving as an evangelist for open standards and security innovation worldwide.TRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, VETERAN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE EDWARD The OSET Institute announced today that Edward Perez, formerly Director of Product Management for voting system vendor Hart InterCivic® has joined the OSET Institute’s leadership team, as Global Director of Technology.In this role, Edward will direct technology research and development, while serving as an evangelist for open standards and security innovation worldwide.NEWS & VIEWS
Election 2020 is over, and many of the wilder conspiracy theories about “the stolen election” are receding into zombie-dom. However, we’re still seeing some persistent “concerns” about election results that “can’t be right” because “something’s wrong with these numbers” based on amateur statistical analysis and a complete misunderstanding of election night reporting. ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING A SURVEY OF ABSENTEE BALLOT Election Policy Briefing A Survey of Absentee Ballot 2020. ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING SYSTEMIC RACISM IN U.S. ELECTIONS Election Policy Briefing Systemic Racism in U.S. Elections 2020. STILL-TO-BE-COUNTED BALLOTS ARE NOT ‘ILLEGAL’ Ballot processing follows a precise “ chain of custody ” that both 1) protects the integrity of the votes; and 2) adds to the time and labor required to process or “count” ballots. * Some states, for example, allow voters to use drop boxes across the state, and even if a ballot is received timely in a drop box in one county, it may need ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING THE BIPARTISAN TRUTH ABOUT BY19 20 19
ELECTION 2020: PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY RISKS IN COMPETITIVE Election 2020: Process and Technology Risks in Competitive States October 2020 | Developed by Edward Perez, Global Director, Technology & Standards State & Electoral Votes k 2020 Approx. Total Registered EXECUTIVE BRIEFING CODE CAUSES CHANGE AND TRANSPARENCY Code causes change, and transparency builds trust. INTRODUCING THE ELECTION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK— CRITICAL Polling Place Election Administration O ce Registrar of Voters’ O ce Central Counting O ce Data Standards Data Formats API Admin Web UI is a tablet or laptop-based device that presents a voter MACHINE-MARKED PRINTED VOTE RECORDS Machine-Marked Printed Vote Records Recommended Principles and Guidelines V4.5 | February 2019 PLAIN TALK SERIES ON ELECTION SECURITY #4: WHY NOT TO Plain Talk Series on Election Security #4: Why Not to Trust a Computer With Your Vote. This is the 4th of a 7-part series of election security vignettes intentionally kept as brief as possible to stick to the main point of the title above. Its intended to acquaint relatively new-comers to election integrity and security, and that includesTRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Tax-deductible contributions to the TrustTheVote Project ensures there will be higher integrity, lower cost, easier to use voting technology available in time for the 2024 presidential election. Your Donation Will be Used to: + Finish development of the ElectOS voting system. + Acquire federal certification.THE PETITION
The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
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The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Tax-deductible contributions to the TrustTheVote Project ensures there will be higher integrity, lower cost, easier to use voting technology available in time for the 2024 presidential election. Your Donation Will be Used to: + Finish development of the ElectOS voting system. + Acquire federal certification.THE PETITION
The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
ABOUT THE ABC DEMO PROTOTYPE Overview. This demo prototype app is part of the TrustTheVote Project‘s highly accessible remote ballot client (ABC Mobile App) wherein such a mobile “client” provides the services of ballot access, preparation, and production of necessary ancillary documentation to complete a ballot transaction (i.e., casting of a ballot).. The ABC Mobile App is intended primarily for the needs of~30
THE PETITION
The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us. OVERVIEW | TRUSTTHEVOTE Framework overview. Voter-facing technology enables voter registration, voting, and reporting of results. Election officials use technology to manage elections, register voters, and count ballots. Each of the steps and areas is populated by one or more applications, which together comprise the Election Technology Framework. ENSURING YOU’RE READY TO VOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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The TrustTheVote Project is a non-profit public benefits project challenging the status quo of non-profits seeking change and reform in American electoral processes. Rather than being a think-tank, we’re focused on actually making truly trustworthy open source elections systems. We’re like a “Mozilla for voting machines.”. ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING SYSTEMIC RACISM IN U.S. ELECTIONS Election Policy Briefing Systemic Racism in U.S. Elections 2020. ANALYSIS OF RECENT NAVID KESHAVARZ-NIA AFFIDAVIT December 2020 © 2020 OSET Institute, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Position Paper | December 2020 Analysis of Recent Navid Keshavarz-Nia Affidavit A Fact Check INTRODUCING THE ELECTION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK— CRITICAL Polling Place Election Administration O ce Registrar of Voters’ O ce Central Counting O ce Data Standards Data Formats API Admin Web UI is a tablet or laptop-based device that presents a voter BRIEFING GEORGIA STATE ELECTION TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION v.8 March 2019 © 2019 OSET Institute, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 3. There is a Fundamental Definitional Problem. HB.316 does not define either “ballot” orTRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, VETERAN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE EDWARD The OSET Institute announced today that Edward Perez, formerly Director of Product Management for voting system vendor Hart InterCivic® has joined the OSET Institute’s leadership team, as Global Director of Technology.In this role, Edward will direct technology research and development, while serving as an evangelist for open standards and security innovation worldwide.TRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER Part 2 of 3. I’m back again with another entry in the Secret Decoder Ring series that you can use to decode and discard pretty much any theory along the lines of “Election 2020 Stolen via Fancy Technology.” In Pa rt 1, I boiled down one whole family of theories to its essentials — a conspiracy of election officials (EOs) formed to steal the presidential election — and pointed out BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BRIEFING A NEW ARCHITECTURE FOR TRUSTWORTHY VOTING SYSTEMSa , a ? not
THE BUSINESS OF VOTING 6 Election Technology Industry Report Election Technology Industry Report 7 to improve election administration.3 However, the implementation of these new technologies and processes ultimately relies on the actors that design, manufacture, integrate, and support voting machines and the associated technological infrastructure, VETERAN ELECTION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE EDWARD The OSET Institute announced today that Edward Perez, formerly Director of Product Management for voting system vendor Hart InterCivic® has joined the OSET Institute’s leadership team, as Global Director of Technology.In this role, Edward will direct technology research and development, while serving as an evangelist for open standards and security innovation worldwide.NEWS & VIEWS
Election 2020 is over, and many of the wilder conspiracy theories about “the stolen election” are receding into zombie-dom. However, we’re still seeing some persistent “concerns” about election results that “can’t be right” because “something’s wrong with these numbers” based on amateur statistical analysis and a complete misunderstanding of election night reporting. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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It’s Our Right . We’re advancing a Petition to take a common sense, non-partisan stand on what is needed to ensure trustworthy elections: a public technology option.Sign the Petition to send a message to Congress and each State Secretary that you demand serious consideration to properly funding new election technology research and development, and making that technology a publicly BLOCKCHAIN ️ BREAKERS Blockchain. Breakers. Published March 31st, 2021 by John Sebes. Credit: Bob Smith. Here is the start of a sequel of sorts to KrakenBusters, which isn’t about Kraken, but actually about Blockchain. It appears necessary to do some more debunking, but not about “The Big Lie” (aka election Kraken ), but rather about theBlockchain — that
DEPLOYMENT | TRUSTTHEVOTE The deployment will work like this: The Election Technology Framework comprises software-based systems for election administration and voting. These systems require integration with off-the-shelf digital hardware devices. The TrustTheVote Project will produce a ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING SYSTEMIC RACISM IN U.S. ELECTIONS Election Policy Briefing Systemic Racism in U.S. Elections 2020.ELECTIONS 2030
Elections 2030 Roadmap Briefing | 3 About the OSET Institute The Open Source Election Technology (“OSET”) Institute is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonpartisan, nonprofit election ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING A SURVEY OF ABSENTEE BALLOT Election Policy Briefing A Survey of Absentee Ballot 2020. INTRODUCING THE ELECTION TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORK— CRITICAL Polling Place Election Administration O ce Registrar of Voters’ O ce Central Counting O ce Data Standards Data Formats API Admin Web UI is a tablet or laptop-based device that presents a voter ELECTION POLICY BRIEFING THE BIPARTISAN TRUTH ABOUT BY19 20 19
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The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Tax-deductible contributions to the TrustTheVote Project ensures there will be higher integrity, lower cost, easier to use voting technology available in time for the 2024 presidential election. Your Donation Will be Used to: + Finish development of the ElectOS voting system. + Acquire federal certification. ENSURING YOU’RE READY TO VOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
THE PETITION
The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
TRUSTTHEVOTE
The principles of open source offer a proven competitive market approach, increased transparency, unbridled innovation, and publicly available software. We created the TrustTheVote Project with 3 tenets in mind: place stakeholders at the center of the work, drive open standards and open data, and apply open source principles.NEWS & VIEWS
Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Tax-deductible contributions to the TrustTheVote Project ensures there will be higher integrity, lower cost, easier to use voting technology available in time for the 2024 presidential election. Your Donation Will be Used to: + Finish development of the ElectOS voting system. + Acquire federal certification. ENSURING YOU’RE READY TO VOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Election-Stealing Voting Machines Theories: Secret Decoder Ring, Part 1. John Sebes January 4 th, 2021. Weeks after a normal election there are still 100s of thousands of people, or more, tuning into a variety of theories about how the presidential election was “stolen.”. Among these are theories that center on software in voting systems. LEARN MORE | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Tax-deductible contributions to the TrustTheVote Project ensures there will be higher integrity, lower cost, easier to use voting technology available in time for the 2024 presidential election. Your Donation Will be Used to: + Finish development of the ElectOS voting system. + Acquire federal certification. ENSURING YOU’RE READY TO VOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us.TEAM | TRUSTTHEVOTE
The TrustTheVote Project team is comprised of social entrepreneurs who are also seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience. The TrustTheVote Project is a flagship initiative of the nonprofit OSET Institute, co-founded by Gregory Miller and John Sebes following the mid-term elections of 2006. PLAIN TALK ON ELECTION AUDITS AND RECOUNTS SYSTEM SECURITY INTEGRATED THROUGH HARDWARE AND FIRMWARE 1 System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) Linton Salmon. April 21, 2017. Develop hardware design tools to provide inherent security against hardware vulnerabilities that BUSYBOOTH | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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Election 2020 is over, and many of the wilder conspiracy theories about “the stolen election” are receding into zombie-dom. However, we’re still seeing some persistent “concerns” about election results that “can’t be right” because “something’s wrong with these numbers” based on amateur statistical analysis and a complete misunderstanding of election night reporting.THE PETITION
The Petition. We intend to submit a Petition to State Secretaries and Congress on all voters’ behalf to demand that government seriously considers how to properly promote and support the required research and development to produce more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent voting technology, and make it a public asset.. We encourage you to sign on with us. OVERVIEW | TRUSTTHEVOTE Framework overview. Voter-facing technology enables voter registration, voting, and reporting of results. Election officials use technology to manage elections, register voters, and count ballots. Each of the steps and areas is populated by one or more applications, which together comprise the Election Technology Framework. CITIZENS | TRUSTTHEVOTE Advancing electoral technology innovation to improve the voting experience and increase the integrity of elections and their outcomes. The TrustTheVote Project is an initiative of the OSET Institute, Inc., a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefitcorporation.
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John Sebes
March 31st, 2021
BLOCKCHAIN BREAKERS John Sebes March 31st,2021
Credit: Bob Smith
Here is the start of a sequel of sorts to KrakenBusters,
which isn’t about Kraken, but actually about BLOCKCHAIN. It appears necessary to do some more debunking, but not about “The Big Lie” (aka election Kraken),
but rather about the Blockchain — that overly hyped, open, highly distributed, public ledger.WHY THE HYPE?
Before we get into debunking the hype, I think that it’s important to start with a story about why the hype persists — maybe not the only reason, but an important reason why “blockchain” and “voting” keep getting mashed together in ways that confuse a lot of people. You see, first, there is a set of technical problems needing to be solved to get beyond the hype, and they exist because of a conundrum that some local election officials (“LEOs”) face: The Federal government says Internet voting is “too risky,” but several state legislatures have passed laws to go so far as to requireInternet voting.
So, these LEOs need to do something, but it’s very unclear how to compare the options. And many others want the cyber security problems of Internet voting to be fixed; in fact, they want it so much, that they’ve become convinced that “blockchain” solves the problem — without ever getting clear about _what the problem actually is_, or exactly what is meant by “blockchain,” so that it could be a genuine solution in this unique setting. However, because the genuine solution hasn’t actually materialized, the “blockchain voting” ideas just keep being raised up as “thething.”
TO BE SPECIFIC: TOO RISKY When I state “_the Federal government says Internet voting is too risky,_” I am referring to several pronouncements, but mostly specifically a May 2020 joint statement from several agencies: DHS/CISA, FBI, EAC, NIST, likely with input from others as well. The Wall Street Journal coverage is complete; _“Entire elections can be compromised if online voting systems are hacked, U.S. says in blunt warning to states”_ (the full article is pay-walled). Meanwhile, CyberScoop’s Sean Lyngass offers a good summary, and of
course, you can always read the whole 8-page report.
This statement came after some other inter-agency statements about threats to election security including nation-statecyber-threats
.
Key audiences for these “advisories” are information-sharing organizations that include Federal agencies, state election officials, and some local election officials including some large jurisdictions. (Note: that’s not the average public.) As far as Federal and state and local cooperation is concerned, these advisories are well heeded. Personally and professionally, I agree that it would be foolhardy to allow anyone who wanted to, to use the Internet to return their marked ballot to their local election officials. The more people who do so, the more they create a tempting target to nation-state cyber-attackers seeking to hack an election. Also, consider just the “doubt factor.” For a while, Alaska allowed general use of Internet ballot return, but rolled it back after usage crept into the double digits of percent of voters, while there were some contests with narrower margins. I imagine it grew a bit uncomfortable because of the: * Potential for a contested election; * Demands to produce the “digital ballots” for inspection; and * Questions about how anybody could be sure that those ballots were the ones sent by the voter. What about hackers? Couldn’t the IT administrators gain access to the digital ballots stored on the serverthey operate?
TO BE SPECIFIC: “REQUIRED FOR SOME VOTERS” However, it’s also important to remember that state legislatures write the election laws that states and LEOs must follow. And despite the warnings, over 30 states have required some form of electronic/digital return of absentee ballots, with eMail being the most common option. (Note: the _National Conference of State Legislatures_ (NCSL) has an excellent breakdown.)
Usage is typically limited to military and overseas voters; these voters were specifically and originally addressed in a Federal law called “UOCAVA ” (say, “U-O-kah-vah”), which required various accommodations, including digital delivery of blank ballots, but _NOT_ digital return of completed (_marked or cast_) ballots. If it sounds like a terrible idea to require LEOs to accept eMail from anyone _CLAIMING_ to be a UOCAVA voter, and open eMail attachments _CLAIMING_ to be ballots, then you understand some eMail securitybasics; great!
It’s also a _TERRIBLE_ idea in terms of _NOT_ protecting the anonymity of the ballot as an attachment to an eMail (and some other attachments) necessary to identify the voter. And yes, of course, the attachments themselves can be hacked en route. (Note: Kudos to Galois’ Joe Kiniry and team for whipping up a reference attack in, as I recall, a couple hours ona challenge.)
FAX isn’t much better; nowadays, fax is just another way to move an image over the Internet, because the Internet is now the backbone for telephony . Also, it’s very common for the recipient of a fax to be a computer that sends the contents to a recipient via eMail, since so few people have fax machines any more. In addition to fax and eMail, other methods are allowed in various states, and all subject to the usual array of Internet security threats, and threats to privacy and anonymity. For example, both Colorado and Alaska have, at times, allowed _DIGITAL BALLOT RETURN_ by uploading files to a government file server through a web interface, where a file server needs to keep the ballot+affidavit pair actually together, and maybe put a few hurdles in the way of someone inspecting them to determine the identity of a voter and the contents of their ballot; or deleting the files or inserting spurious ones. So, these are not great alternatives for disadvantaged voters, who in some cases have to simply waive ballot privacy, and in any case have to accept the technical risks to their ballots being potentially accessible to skilled hackers anywhere on the planet. However, these alternatives are certainly better than nothing for a voter who is certain that physical ballot return will result in a late and uncounted absentee ballot. ENTER THE BLOCKCHAIN And that’s where the “blockchain wonderfulness” enters the conversation, by a simple near reflexive knee-jerk thought ofparallelism:
“_The blockchain has transformed money, enabling us to use cryptocurrency to pay for stuff securely and anonymously — so it should fix the security problems of Internet voting_!“ Well, _NOT_ so much, as we’ll see later. The problem with containing this particular “zombie” is that there are several “systems” or “schemes” for voting that claim to use something called a “blockchain” and which blockchain enthusiasts refer to as “_blockchain voting systems_” that really work… well, sort of. After all … eMail voting “works” with some obvious and huge risks, while nevertheless actually following typical U.S. absentee voting practices. There are some systems that some call a “blockchain voting system” that lack the obvious risks, though not following absentee voting practices. Yet, these systems have _DIFFERENT_ risks, as the DHS, FBI, et al Report explains in detail. And whether or not there is really a “blockchain” in there somewhere, there are real risks. WHAT’S A LOCAL ELECTION OFFICIAL TO DO? That’s a good question. I’ve heard several election officials from some 30 states lament that they don’t have much guidance from their own state or the federal government on how to meet their legally required duties to UOCAVA voters … with several options to compareand contrast.
They need some guidance on what the options are, their trade-offs, and how to pick a method of “digital ballot return” that fits their needs and abilities. Presently, none exist, and the situation is severely muddied by blockchain enthusiasts making great claims, and computer scientists and cybersecurity professionals poking holes in those claims. In fact, there are a lot of questions.WHAT’S NEXT?
Before we can get to some answers — or rather concrete guidance for LEOs to decide what to do — there needs to be some serious conceptual clean up of the phrase-term “blockchain voting.” That will be the focus of the next installment, which will then get us to the point of teasing apart the confusing dialog (if that’s the right word) between blockchain-ers, computer scientists, and digitalsecurity folks.
_— _EJS
John Sebes
February 8th, 2021
KRAKENBUSTING: MOVING ON AFTER THE STATISTICS ZOMBIES John Sebes February8th, 2021
Election
2020 is finally over, and thankfully many of the wilder conspiracy theories about “the stolen election” (aka “The Big Lie”) are receding into zombie-dom. However, we’re still seeing some more persistent, shall we say, “_concerns_” about election results that “_can’t be right_” because “_something’s wrong with these numbers_” based on amateur statistical analysis and a complete misunderstanding of election night reporting. So crazy are these “concerns” that we’re compelled to continue trying to quash the Kraken, so to speak.
(The term, now an Internet meme,
refers to the myriad conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being “stolen” for Biden.) And of course, that inspired us to singout…
_When numbers don’t look right, tryin’ to wrap your brain ’roundit all_
_and common sense seems light, then __who you gonna call? “Krakenbusters!”_ We’re not afraid of any Kraken, so let’s do this. First, we note there are many versions of this “concern” still circulating from videos to faux news shows on OAN, but the common theme goes like this: _Over the course of an extended election result reporting period in November 2020, incrementally released vote tally “dumps” revealed such huge statistical anomalies that it would have been “one in aquadrillion
”
for those numbers to have randomly occurred_. And a common corollary to that is: “_Something absolutely must be wrong with the election results_.” Except now the concerned person no longer tries to explain the supposed anomalies via recourse to theories about “evil election officials”
or “evil software
”
that “stole the election.” Well, there are two very simple reasons to stop paying attention to this stuff—seriously, ignore this Kraken. * THE FIRST REASON IS THAT ALL OF THESE AMATEUR STATISTICAL ANALYSES ARE _FLAWED_ BECAUSE OF THE _FALSE_ ASSUMPTION THAT THE ELECTION RESULTS REPORTING WERE IN RANDOM ORDER. For this and other explanations of why amateurs and even MIT Ph.D level researchers (e.g., researchers from Rutgers) make these mistakes, please see the very readable complete and concise reportespecially
under “Statistical Analysis.” (SOURCE NOTE: in fairness of full disclosure, we chose RRH Elections , which analyzes elections from a Republican-leaning perspective.) As that report summarily states, for the “_one in a quadrillion_” calculation to be correct, votes would have to be counted in _random_ order, so that a vote counted late was no more likely to be for Biden than a vote counted early. However, this is FALSE, because in the four states in question, absentee votes were counted _after_ Election Day votes. We cannot make this more clear: ABSENTEE VOTES (e.g., ballots returned by mail or hand delivery) WERE COUNTED _AFTER_ ALL OF THE VOTES CAST DURING NORMAL VOTING HOURS. And the reality is that Biden did better in absentee votes than in Election Day votes. MATT PARKER offers an entertaining and engagingvideo of simple
explanations about math to help sort this out, and it’s a “must see” when you have ~19 minutes to burn. And ROBERT VERBRUGGEN published an article in the conservative National Review “The Dumb Statistical Argument in Texas’s Election Lawsuit”
that you can listen to or read. It is an equally helpful (and a bit less mathematical) explanation of why these statistics arguments are silliness. Make-believe. Kraken. * THE SECOND REASON IS WE NOW HAVE THE FINAL ELECTION RESULTS TO ASSESS AS A WHOLE; THUS, THE REPORTED SLOW DRIP RESULTS IN MID-NOVEMBER ARE NOW IRRELEVANT. With the vote totals complete and certified for weeks now, anyone hungry for data analysis can dig into the final vote tally data in the state of your choice. * You can slice it and dice it by county, by precinct, by early vs. Election Day vs. absentee vs. provisional voting. * You can correlate with external data about “Republican-leaning” or “Democratic-leaning” or “cat-loving” or “dog-loving.” * You can decide for yourself about whether the final numbers smell funny to you, based on the whole enchilada or any slice you like. However, now it _just doesn’t matter_ what order the individual ballots were counted in, or what order they were reported in, back in mid-November. All of the ballots are there. You can now toxin-purge yourself of the “_where there is smoke there must be fire_” feeling, because the “smoke” is mostly confusion, or outright propaganda or simply Kraken, compounded by well-meaningre-tweets.
And then you can finally ask yourself whether you _really_ believe that those official certified vote total numbers were outright made up, despite the extensive and public procedures to double and triple check election results—including re-counts of paper ballots—or whether on balance, you just don’t believe in the “stolen election” stories that now, months later, are not supported by a _single shred _of actual evidence. Truly, this has become a remarkable battle to kill the cray-cray conspiracy theories, but that’s why we’re compelled into duty asKrakenbusters
.
I hope you join me in moving ahead into 2021 and onward. Kraken aside, while the 2020 Election was not stolen, there is plenty of work to be done to make U.S. elections more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent. Current election technology and practices are far from perfect, and far from well understood let alone well trusted. However, we’re working on it, and hope you’ll continue to supportthat work .
–EJS
John Sebes
January 18th, 2021
ELECTION-STEALING VOTING MACHINES THEORIES: SECRET DECODER RING,APPENDICES
John Sebes January
18th, 2021
AFTER POINTS
In my just concluded 3-part series,
I provided some plain talk about the nonsense of several kinds of theories about elections stolen via voting machines. However, I didn’t cover two important related points: 1) what our adversaries can do to attack our democratic elections, and 2) what you, the reader can do to help. Read moreSee All News
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