THE PROBLEM WE’RE ADDRESSING

OVERCOMING OBSOLESCENCE.

 

Election technology infrastructure in all democracies, and particularly the United States, has been allowed to deteriorate to the point that:

  • inherent security problems, combined with

  • runaway costs, and

  • terrible usability (especially for those with accessibility requirements)

  • add up to a democracy administration crisis.

When combined with partisan paralysis over solutions, plus a lack of any commercial incentive to remedy this, the technology of administering elections has become a serious threat to the stability of democracy.

THE SOLUTION:

Election technology infrastructure, an inherently partisan backwater of government I.T., must be re-invented to:

  • increase security;

  • lower costs;

  • upgrade usability; and above all,

  • improve resilience for a digital, highly mobile society where constitutionally mandated elections must withstand catastrophic disruptions.

This requires producing a new publicly-owned technology infrastructure that can support a sensible migration from existing obsolete systems as they reach their point of required replacement, to a verifiable, accurate, secure and transparent alternative.