Truth in Voting.
Veritas Voting was founded in the wake of the 2020 election. After all the noise died down and the newly elected officials were sworn into office, the country continued to have many questions surrounding the voting systems that were in use.
We stepped back and took notice to the headlines and wondered why there were allegations of fraud and abuse surrounding not only the 2020 election, but the 2016 election as well. If two presidential elections in a row resulted in same sort of scenario, then we concluded that has to be a better way.
Our goal is to develop a system that inspires confidence. We believe we have done just that.
On the other hand, our competition believes that "black box" voting is the best way to maintain security and protect their intellectual property for the good of the country. Dominion Voting Systems was quoted here on July 26, 2021 with this statement:
“Releasing Dominion’s intellectual property to an unaccredited, biased, and plainly unreliable actor such as Cyber Ninjas would be reckless, causing irreparable damage to the commercial interests of the company and the election security interests of the country. No company should be compelled to participate in such an irresponsible act.”
At Veritas Voting, we believe the public interests and election security interests of the country deserve complete and total transparency.
We have taken our ideas in favor of openness and fairness to build a revolutionary new method behind accurate voting systems.
First, we patented the use of QR codes to quickly and easily provide every voter who is interested a fast and easy way to access all the software used in the voting process. Verify for yourself that everything is done fairly and accurately and let the best candidate win.
When our QR code is scanned, we present to the user a cryptographic hash, or digital fingerprint, of the voting software file. That's the hash of the software running on the machine at that moment. Scanning the QR code takes the user to our GitHub page where the software is available for download and review. On the static GitHub page, the user again finds the hash value of the software when it was uploaded. By downloading the software themselves and performing the same hash function on the downloaded files, the user can confirm without question that the software is unchanged and is exactly as it is running on the voting system.
Veritas Voting has also pioneered a vote tabulation method centered on ballot serial numbers. While we strictly maintain separation from the voter and the ballot to ensure voter privacy, we do generate a unique serial number for each ballot presented to the voter.
By tracking the serial number through the three steps of the voting process, printing, scanning and finally tabulation, we create a chain of custody for each and every ballot.
First the serial number is generated and attached to the ballot when it is printed. This print on demand system ensure that polling places never run out of official ballots causing unnecessary delays. It also allows us to apply our unique algorithm for serial number generation to ensure the integrity of the ballot through the process.
This serial number is again recorded at the scanner and voter's selections are saved and recorded with each serial number. This important step ensures that all ballots scanned were officially printed ballots with known serial numbers. Every serial number is recorded every time, this provides a check in the system to prevent the double counting of ballots.
The last step in the election process is the tabulation of the votes. On our dedicated tabulation system we centralize all the serial numbers of the ballots printed along with all the ballots scanned.
During the tabulation process all ballot serial numbers are cross referenced to compare the known printed values to all the scanned values. This check allows our system to do three things to circumvent fraud and ensure the integrity of the voting process.
• By only counting known to be printed serial numbers, the system prevents the introduction of unauthorized ballots.
• Eliminate ballots that are scanned but not printed on the official system to stop the introduction of external ballot sources.
• This system stops any accidental or deliberate double counting of any authorized or unauthorized ballot.
Our system also go a step above the competition and ensure that no one is ever able to perform remote access on any of our systems. We do not install any wireless networking or Bluetooth hardware in our equipment. We also ensure that any wired network ports are physically disabled before we ship the equipment to our customers.
When these measures are layered on top of the most stringent use of FIPS compliant asymmetric encryption, we feel that we provide the best voting solution available on the market.
We truly stand behind our slogan, "Truth in Voting".
Sincerely,
The Veritas Voting Team