We've got big news: next week, voters in 3 New Hampshire towns will cast their ballots on VotingWorks equipment. Transparency as a way to build trust.
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We're a non-partisan non-profit making voting technology transparent, simple, and secure.
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Georgia successfully completed their risk-limiting audit in 2 days, providing strong evidence that ballots were counted correctly.
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All counties in Georgia have completed the hand count of batches for the statewide Risk Limiting Audit (RLA). 5% risk limit has been met, verifying that @GaSecofState Raffensperger is the winner. Thanks to the counties & @voting_works for their dedication & hard work. #gapol
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Are you a software engineer interested in helping build the only open-source voting system in the US?
I hope you'll consider applying to . We just opened up new positions.
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We're hiring our first Head of Hardware.
Love building great, pragmatic hardware+software products? Interested in a real mission like the security and integrity of our elections? Please consider applying.
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Heads up: we'll soon be hiring a head of hardware to manage industrial design, mechanical engineering, and production of all our voting equipment.
Job description and interview process coming soon. If you want to your hardware skills to democracy, stay tuned.
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On International Women's Day #IWD2022 , let's remember that more than 80% of local election officials are women.
You read that right. 80+%. Women are the engine of democracy in the US.
More about our amazing election administrators here:
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The Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) is the standard to which voting machines are certified. Machines today are certified to the 15-year-old VVSG 1.0.😱
VVSG 2.0 was adopted 10 months ago. Here's our take on how things are going:
voting.works/news/road-to-v
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We think technology that powers our democracy should be transparent, simple, and secure. And we're doing something about it by building a better system in close collaboration with election administrators.
If you like what we're doing, here how to donate:
voting.works/donate
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And if you want the long version, here's a 15 minute documentary about how we developed our voting system hand-in-hand with election officials in Mississippi:
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Here's one of our favorite customer testimonials, just 90 seconds:
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Our voting system has been used in 14 counties. Paper ballots, marked by hand or by machine. Simple to use and election officials love it.
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We're the only non-profit in the US making voting technology. Everything we build is fully transparent: open-source code, open documentation, open pricing.
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Hi friends.
It's holiday season, so maybe you're thinking of donating to some non-profits.
We hope you'll consider VotingWorks and we've got 7 tweets to tell you why.
voting.works/donate
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TODAY is the deadline for comments to the Election Assistance Commission on how it should carry out upgrading the standard for all US voting machines.
Send in comments if you have them!
(We'll be sharing our comments shortly.)
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The EAC has extended the comment period for the VVSG Lifecycle Policy until December 14th, 2021. Please visit regulations.gov/document/EAC-2 to submit comments.
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We're hiring two experienced software engineers.
Non-profit, better voting machines, all open-source, a small team with really big goals. Work from anywhere in the US.
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San Francisco County has been at the forefront of the movement towards voting machines where everyone can see the source code.
We're incredibly proud to be working with SF to implement this vision in 2022 using our open-source voting system.
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We're hiring a Head of Engineering.
Do you want to apply your technical and leadership skills to building the voting system every American can trust? Are you passionate about building an effective, inclusive, and supportive team?
Apply here:
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Boone County, Missouri, is piloting risk-limiting audits today, using Arlo, our open-source risk-limiting audit software.
Risk-limiting audits check that tabulators declared the legitimate winner. Cool stats and ballot custody!
Live streaming right now:
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For many, today's just another Monday.
For thousands of election administrators and poll workers around the country, it's election eve. So much work leading up to tomorrow, so much work following it. All in the name of democracy.
Thank you election workers!
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Matt Bernhard (), research engineer at VotingWorks, is speaking at this week about the threat model for risk-limiting audits and how we're securing Arlo, our open-source software used by 9 states to run these post-election audits.
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Want to know what a risk-limiting audit looks like?
Right now, Orange County is running a risk-limiting audit, using VotingWorks's open-source software Arlo, and they're live-streaming the whole thing.
ocvote.com/results/risk-l
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This evening, we'll be at the San Francisco Elections Special Commission meeting to provide information about our open-source voting system, the first in the US.
sfgov.org/electionscommi
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Bottom line – we urge the EAC to consider that current policies are entrenching manufacturers created prior to 2015 and making it harder for newer manufacturers to get certified.
But it's the newer manufacturers who are more interested in moving the market to VVSG 2.0.
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In addition, the only reasonable implementation path for this requirement happens to be patented by a major vendor. It's a highly questionable patent, but still: this is likely going to make this requirement even more expensive.
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On cost: we focus on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware to reduce costs.
One of the accessibility requirements in particular, given how it is worded, makes a COTS implementation impossible. That will significantly increase cost.
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On modularity: we would *love* to submit components of our system for VVSG 2.0 certification.
Unfortunately, as we are a manufacturer born after 2015, there is no path for us to do this. We hope the EAC will provide us a path to certify components under VVSG 2.0.
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If the EAC doesn't act on this, VVSG 2.0 is likely in danger. There's little motivation for manufacturers to upgrade to 2.0 if they can continue to sell, update, and market systems under the much lower bar of 1.0.
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The lifecycle policy, how we move from VVSG 1.0 to VVSG 2.0, is critical.
In 2021, long-established manufacturers are still submitting new systems, for example a brand new central scanner with a brand new product name and brand new features, under the 16yo VVSG 1.0 standard!
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EAC staff have been very helpful, answering every question we've sent promptly and effectively.
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We're working as fast as we can on VVSG 2.0 certification and planning on submitting our system for certification in mid 2022.
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Here's the text of 's comments today:
docs.google.com/document/d/1iw
(The script wasn't followed perfectly.)
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Today at 1pm eastern, we'll be on a panel of voting equipment manufacturers, organized by the Election Assistance Commission (), to comment on VVSG 2.0, the latest standard for voting equipment.
Live on the EAC's YouTube channel:
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Ok, question #ElectionTwitter - would you be interested in watching VVSG 2.0 cert process in real time? We're noodling abt making the whole thing as open as our code, b/c, well, we can - and there's not a lot of transparency abt how this stuff works in practice.
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This is exactly what had in mind when it funded the development of ARLO as an open source auditing tool. Props to ! Thanks to . To learn more: github.com/votingworks/ar
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I'm so pumped that Arlo is starting to be used independently! Congrats to @NCSBE for taking such a big step to improve election security! carolinapublicpress.org/47584/official
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We're hiring 2 experienced software engineers to join our team building election technology all Americans can trust.
Applications welcome throughout the month of August.
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