The VoteSecure Project

Cryptographers Helping Voters to Evaluate the
  Trustworthiness of Election Technology

VoteSecure — Project Goals:

1. Provide technical security support and education to non-profit non-governmental organizations trying to improve the security, accuracy and fairness of the electoral process.
2. Research the appropriate uses for cryptography, if any, in democratic voting processes (e.g. requiring a secret ballot) and archive relevant source documents.
3. Deploy free, open source technologies that support the public's right to organize, conduct, vote in, audit and trust any open, public electoral process.

VoteSecure Partners

CRF provides non-partisan technical security assistance to, and/or partnership on the goals listed above¹ with, non-profit organizations involved in voter education, ballot technology security & trustworthiness, fair election disricting & development, polling place monitoring and voting reform, including:

Election Defense Alliance

League of Technical Voters

Democrats.com

California Election Protection Network

Progressive Democrats of America

Getting Involved:

Anyone interested in this research is welcome to subscribe to the VoteSecure-Talk mailing list for public discussions about election technology security policy, and whether cryptography — or any computer technology — is appropriate for voting. Different types of cryptographic technologies may have a place in certain aspects of elections, including: hash functions, digital signatures, certification authorities, steganography, specialized printing, biometrics and data encryption.

CRF may be able to help your election group with a secure mailing list (as an alternative to using insecure commercial services like Yahoo Groups), email security training for your non-governmental election organization, or by supporting or partnering with your election organization. To just send a private request/message to the VoteSecure project administrators, please use our Feedback Form.

Related Links:

• Your charitable donations support this public benefit research... if fair elections are important to you, please give generously to CRF and its partners!
• We're planning to provide FamilySafe technology to interested community-based non-profit election monitoring/auditing groups.
• The HighFire project can be used to provide secure communications for election monitoring and witnessing and for certification of electoral communications in more challenging environments.

CRF always welcomes your constructive feedback.
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Note:
1: The CryptoRights Foundation does no lobbying itself, and is not involved in lobbying efforts (if any) by any NGO partners.