1.1: Trust the Vote Project
Make demonstrative progress by the 2010 mid-term national elections, delivering applicable, actionable, and useful results
for some of the “choke points” that currently exist in the efficient running of elections with current proprietary solutions.
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TrustTheVote™ (TTV) is the flagship project of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) for its mission to re-invent
how America votes in a digital democracy. The TTV project has an ambitious and aggressive road map, schedule, and projected
deliverables that can be “seen, touched, and tried.” However, we are realistic about the size of the undertaking, and the
challenges of adoption for the resulting technology trust. The project has a mandate to make demonstrative progress by the
2010 mid-term national elections, delivering applicable, actionable, and useful results for some of the “choke points” that
currently exist in the efficient running of elections with current proprietary solutions. These areas the Foundation seeks
to impact by 2010 include: voter registration, ballot design, ballot tabulation and auditing. The TTV project is a digital
public works project, creating freely available, non-proprietary technology that is maintained as a public trust. Open source
technology and practices are a key aspect of a public works project, and a critical ingredient in the TTV recipe for creating
public trust in election technology, via technologically enabled transparency. TTV’s approach to transparency is to be an
enabler for “open government” in U.S. elections, a first-ever demonstration that election technology can capture all the details
of all the digital processes of election, and publish these details so that the public can see exactly what public servants
are doing in pursuit of the public’s business of operating elections.
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