TrueVote

What TrueVote is

TrueVote is a digital voting platform for casting ballots and checking their inclusion in election totals. Its configurable Election Administration Portal is described as a way to create and maintain elections and ballots. Voters can use a public Ballot Explorer to check whether a ballot appears in the aggregate count. The white paper says election data’s Merkle roots are periodically recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain, while the site says voting data is hashed there to make votes immutable. TrueVote says ballot data is anonymized and unlinked, with only the voter able to see their name associated with a ballot. Non-identifiable data can be downloaded for reporting, auditing, and analysis. Its design calls for encrypted ballot data at rest, multi-factor authentication at registration, and keeping the private key needed to access elections on the voter’s device. Voters have accounts, and eligibility depends on jurisdiction and registration status. The core code is open source under MIT. The stated initial rollout is for private elections, with beta testing for select public elections; public APIs and voter-registration database integrations are described as later plans.