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Supporters

Open Source Voting Supporters

There is strong support in San Francisco to create an open source voting system:

• San Francisco Board of Supervisors
• San Francisco Elections Commission

In addition, below are some of those in support of the City and County of San Francisco starting and fully funding a project to develop and certify an open source paper-ballot voting system:

• Organizations
• San Francisco Residents
• Other Individuals

For information on being listed on this page, contact [email protected]. Many of these supporters have also sent letters to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.

[Coming soon: sample letter of support.]

SF Board of Supervisors

In December 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution committing San Francisco to work towards creating an open source voting system:

Resolution committing the City and County of San Francisco to work with other jurisdictions and organizations to create new voting systems using open source software; ....

Authored by Supervisor Wiener and co-sponsored by Supervisors Cohen, Kim, and Mar: [PDF resolution] [original source]

SF Elections Commission

On November 18, 2015, the San Francisco Elections Commission unanimously (6-0) passed a resolution asking the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to fund a project to create an open source voting system:

Resolution to support the development and certification of an open source voting system running on commercial off-the-shelf hardware; and to request that the Mayor and Board of Supervisors initiate and fund a project to develop and certify such a system for use in San Francisco.

Links: [PDF resolution] [TXT resolution] [original source]

Organizations

• San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC). Unanimous "Resolution in Support of an Open Source Voting System for San Francisco" (1 page) on April 13, 2016. Introduced by Joshua Arce and co-sponsored by Rebecca Prozan, Zoe Dunning and Kat Anderson: [PDF resolution] [original source]
• San Francisco Technology Democrats (SF Tech Dems). David Cruise, President & CEO, SF Tech Dems.
• Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
• SF Berniecrats (after Jan. 3, 2018 presentation)
• San Francisco Green Party
• SF Chapter of Unite America (formerly the Centrist Project)
• Code for San Francisco. Jesse Biroscak, Captain, Code for San Francisco.
• Represent Us San Francisco
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• California Common Cause [PDF letter]
• California Clean Money Campaign. Trent Lange, President & Executive Director. [Press release, Feb. 21, 2018.]
• GitHub. Chris Wanstrath, CEO and Co‐Founder, GitHub, Inc. [PDF letter]
• FairVote. Rob Richie, Executive Director, FairVote. [PDF letter]
• Verified Voting Foundation. Pamela Smith, President, Verified Voting Foundation.
• Open Source Initiative (OSI)
• Voting Rights Task Force. Jim Soper, Co-chair, Voting Rights Task Force. [PDF letter]
• Open Source Election Technology Foundation (OSET Foundation)
• National Election Defense Coalition

San Francisco Residents

1. Brian Behlendorf, Co-founder, Apache Software Foundation.
2. Pedro Hernandez, Deputy Director, FairVote California.
3. Steven Hill, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation.
4. Alec Bash, Former President, SF DemocracyAction Democratic Club.
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Other Individuals

1. Philip B. Stark, Associate Dean, Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.
2. Jennifer Pae, Director, FairVote California.
3. Dale McGrew, Co-founder and Executive Director, We Vote.