From "CITP" (or Freedom to Tinker)
A three part look at voting systems - focusing on "poll tapes" (a record of voting) - to prevent manipulation of the results.
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/10/15/publish-the-poll-tapes/
Publishing the poll tapes.
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/10/16/compare-the-poll-tapes-against-the-precinct-by-precinct-election-results/
Compare the precinct by precinct results to the poll tapes. Notes varied process for mail-in ballots & in person voting.
https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/10/17/organizing-and-automating-poll-tape-auditing/
Organizing & automating the audits of poll tapes.
The thing is, we have cryptographic techniques that can mathematically, and nearly instantly, prove the integrity of a vote count. We just don't apply them.
We don't need to regress to printing and scanning poll tapes any more than we need to go back to 8 track cassettes.
Let's move forward to state of the art, provably secure computer systems instead of the glitzy stuff we deploy today that disappoints after lowbidding contracts.
