The OSDV Project

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The Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Project is an open source project that is developing demonstrably trustworthy and reliable election technology, including voting devices, election systems, and voter registration systems.

The OSDV project is an open, collaborative community effort that anyone can join, to help create some critical but currently missing links in how America votes: not only trustworthy election technology, but also the basis for creating and sustaining public trust in the proper use of that technology. Some of those links are: working reference systems that could be used as the basis for electronic election equipment, standard specifications for such systems, guidelines for independent assessment of systems, and recommendations for how such systems can be used to conduct and verify voting activities.

All of these results are required for the technology to be used in practice for high veracity elections.

OSDV activities include technical work in various projects in the Labs, and a variety of activities in communication, public relations, government relations, fund-raising, and also operations of the OSDV Foundation that supports the OSDV project.

Most of the technical efforts in OSDV are based on a central observation: most of the usage and trust problems with electronic election equipment today are rooted in technical problems that can be readily addressed by technical efforts towards creating purpose-built systems. We use the term T-Spec to describe our approach to building and assessing such systems using a combination of open-source software development practices and high assurance methodology.

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For more information about the OSDV organization, mission, what we do, etc., see the main Web site, the FAQ, or wiki info on OSDV People. If you're interested in getting involved in the developer community, you might prefer a wiki page that provides an an all-in-one Overview designed specifially for the developer community. Or you might want to start at the top level of the wiki section of the Labs.