VotingWorks
VotingWorks is a non-profit building election technology everyone can trust.www.voting.works
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Sep 24, 2026
The Daily Herold: 9/24/26 - Panda Diplomacy, the CNN Press Ban Ruling, and Another Shipwreck Struggle Session
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36:41Jon HeroldHOST
I mean, these are all the worst companies.
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36:43Jon HeroldHOST
Votech, Votum, VoteShield, VotingWorks, VR Systems, Smartmatic, Runbeck, ProVNV, Insanity.
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36:51Jon HeroldHOST
Maybe you guys can check this out for yourself.
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36:56Jon HeroldHOST
Skeptical says, wait, hold on.
S5E3 - The New (Open Source) Kid on the Block with VotingWork’s Ben Adida
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4:18Ben AdidaGUEST
That's a really interesting technical problem.
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4:21Brianna LennonHOST
So I guess jumping into VotingWorks.
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4:23Brianna LennonHOST
Yeah.
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4:24Brianna LennonHOST
It's the only open source tabulation software right now that exists.
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4:41Brianna LennonHOST
right.
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4:42Brianna LennonHOST
And I think incorporates in some of that cryptography question of auditing it after the fact and things like that.
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4:50Brianna LennonHOST
So can you talk a little bit about what went into the development of VotingWorks and what, I mean, you've said what you're trying to accomplish, but why is it specifically that this is accomplishing your goal?
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5:04Ben AdidaGUEST
Yeah, it's a great question.
Downballot EP271 - Interview With Shasta County Assistant ROV Brent Turner
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55:56Brent TurnerGUEST
But it appeared to me that he does have some computer capability.
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56:02Brent TurnerGUEST
And certainly, you know, when you say expert, I think of Ben Adida from Voting Works or or somebody brian fox somebody that isn't
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56:12The Media WenchHOST
real there's been this whole thread of just like feeble attempts to prove these chops like he's gonna buy a bunch of samsung galaxy s2s and somehow plant them all over the old joanne's fabrics building and then that's gonna be able to film everybody and then there was the usb drives to have it like this thread of obvious ineptitude, like at some point from the from, you know, the inside the house needed to come the cries for help.
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56:50The Media WenchHOST
because the whole situation isn't fixing any of the problems that the people who are continuing to say that there's problems where there's not really any problems.
18 MINS LATER
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74:52Brent TurnerGUEST
Unfortunately, the Los Angeles system, the 300 million went south, and what they unveiled was not an open source voting system to the shock and dismay of the open source community, because we had worked long and hard to make sure that that Los Angeles system was developed.
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75:12Brent TurnerGUEST
going to be the shining light for the state of California.
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75:16Brent TurnerGUEST
So when both those systems efforts went south, luckily at the same time, in parallel, there was a group called Voting Works with Ben Adida, who I mentioned as a world-class security expert, with his work with Voting Works, and they managed to deploy the first open source voting system into Choctaw County, Mississippi.
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75:42Brent TurnerGUEST
I had been working in New Hampshire simultaneously, and soon thereafter, the state of New Hampshire allowed the open source voting systems to be deployed.