{"id":184386,"date":"2024-03-07T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-open-source-voting-machines-could-boost-trust-in-us-elections"},"modified":"2024-03-07T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:22:27","slug":"how-open-source-voting-machines-could-boost-trust-in-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-open-source-voting-machines-could-boost-trust-in-us-elections","title":{"rendered":"How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-open-source-voting-machines-could-boost-trust-in-us-elections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first was to continue with a legacy vendor. Three companies \u2014 Dominion, ES&amp;S, and Hart InterCivic \u2014 control roughly 90 percent of the U.S. voting technology market. All three are privately held, meaning they\u2019re required to reveal little about their financial workings and they\u2019re also committed to keeping their source code from becoming fully public.<\/p>\n<p>The second future was to gamble on VotingWorks, a nonprofit with only 17 employees and voting machine contracts in just five small counties, all in Mississippi. The company has taken the opposite approach to the Big Three. Its financial statements are posted on its website, and every line of code powering its machines is published on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/votingworks\/vxsuite-complete-system\">GitHub<\/a>, available for anyone to inspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first was to continue with a legacy vendor. Three companies \u2014 Dominion, ES&amp;S, and Hart InterCivic \u2014 control roughly 90 percent of the U.S. voting technology market. All three are privately held, meaning they\u2019re required to reveal little about their financial workings and they\u2019re also committed to keeping their source code from becoming fully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}