AboutTTV

From Trust The Vote

The TrustTheVote ("TTV") concept is based on the belief that trustworthy technology for transparent and verifiable elections can only be created by the non-profit efforts of people working openly in the public interest for the common good. You could think of TTV as somewhat like the Mozilla project [1] (which delivers the FireFox web browser and other Internet productivity tools), but developing software for elections, as a sort of digital public works project.

The TTV Project is an open source software project that is developing demonstrably trustworthy and reliable election technology, including voting devices, election systems, and voter registration systems.

TTV is the flagship project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation, and the efforts of its people. TTV activities include technical work in various projects described in this wiki, as well as a variety of activities in communication, public relations, government relations, fund-raising, also supported by the OSDV Foundation. All of these operations are intended to be transparent, documented on this wiki, and open to collaboration and volunteer involvement. This transparency includes, but is not limited to, the process and results of open-source software development in the TTV Project.

NOTE: It is important to point out that success of this project actually will revitalize the so-called voting systems industry. Not only are legacy vendors free to take an OSDV public license to the TTV technology, but we believe that by doing the "heavy lifting" of research and development to create truly trustworthy voting technology, this project will catalyze a new breed of voting technology vendors. These vendors will be systems integrators who have the role, responsibility, and (very viable) business of combining and delivering the TTV technology with qualified hardware and then integrating the resulting system into States' and Counties' existing IT infrastructure.