Voting Security Rights
Voting Right #1:
Full Election Transparency
Ensuring that every stage of the election process is fully observable, publicly verifiable, and accountable to the citizens themselves
Election Transparency Is Essential
The citizen’s right to observe, oversee, and verify the administration of elections is absolute and foundational to the American constitutional order. It is not a privilege granted by officials, but a power inherently reserved to the people.
As a self-governing nation, trust in elections must never be presumed. Trust can only be earned through direct, continuous, and unobstructed citizen scrutiny of every act, every record, and every process that determines the casting and counting of votes.
Opaque processes are inherently illegitimate. Secrecy breeds distrust; transparency confirms the consent of the governed.
Therefore, any election rule, policy, procedure, or measure that obstructs or impedes citizen observation and oversight must be modified or eliminated. Transparent elections are not a matter of administrative efficiency or convenience — they are a constitutional necessity for the preservation of liberty.
Policy Requirements to Guarantee Election Transparency:
Real-Time, Detailed Publication of All Election-Related Records
All election-related records and data must be automatically published for public access without requiring public records requests.
Records must be published urgently and immediately to enable meaningful citizen observation and intervention if necessary.
Pre-Election Records Publication
Pre-election records must be detailed, comprehensive, and readily available to all citizens.
Records must be published every time a change or update is introduced.
No party shall be granted privileged, time-based early access to election records; all citizens must have simultaneous access.
Post-Election Records Publication
Post-election records must be published at least sixty (60) days prior to election certification.
Citizens must have ample time before certification to review election records, validate results, and raise objections.
Required Published Records (Minimum Requirements)
State Voter Registration List (VRL):
Full VRL published with real-time updates, including: names, residential address, party affiliation, status (active/inactive), reason for inactivity, registration and last update dates.
Real-time publishing of all VRL changes.
Historical audit trail of all VRL modificatons.
Full disclosure if third parties are involved in VRL handling.
Published in searchable, open-standard formats (e.g., CSV, JSON).
Number of eligible voters and breakdown by party affiliation per precinct.
Total ballots printed, issued, cast, rejected, and spoiled (with reasons).
Full end-to-end chain-of-custody for all ballots.
Names and schedules of election workers and observers.
Immediate publishing of precinct records if changes occur during operations.
Voter Status Information:
Detailed publication of activations, inactivations, reactivations, removals (with reasons and evidence).
Full history of all voter status changes.
Immediate publishing of new registrations with name, address, party, registration method, eligibility documentation, and precinct assignment.
Clear flagging of provisional or incomplete registrations.
Ballot Tracking and Unique Ballot ID (UBID) Requirements:
Unique Ballot ID assigned to every ballot created, cast, spoiled, rejected, or unused.
Full tracking of the creation, casting, and final status of each ballot.
Objection Handling and Ballot Challenges:
Full publication of UBIDs requiring objections, reasons, resolutions, and observer details.
Voter Casting Information:
Publication of names, addresses, party affiliation, casting method, and voting location for every voter.
Election Worker Activity Logs:
Full schedules and activity logs of election workers linked to corresponding observers.
Additional Required Information:
Any other relevant information enabling citizens to independently verify the election.
Full Transparency of VRL Changes
Every VRL change (additions, removals, status changes, address changes) must be published immediately.
All changes must be tied to published documentation supporting the action.
Transparency of Third-Party Processing
Full disclosure of any third-party entity involved in election operations.
Required publication includes: corporate ownership, service descriptions, election data access details, full contracts, all software code and algorithms, subcontractor identities and roles, and full funding sources (direct funders, affiliated nonprofits, government grants, political or commercial ties).
Public Observation of Election Activities
Citizens must have unrestricted in-person observation wherever possible.
Real-time video feeds must cover all election activities if in-person presence is impractical.
Access and video feeds must cover:
Voter registration offices,
Ballot creation, storage, and transportation facilities,
Voting sites, all ballot counting facilities (precinct, regional, and central),
Election management offices.
Video feeds must be public, recorded, and preserved without obstruction.
Public Publishing of Video Surveillance
All election-related video surveillance footage must be published immediately and archived permanently.
No edits, omissions, or tampering allowed.
Ballots must remain in camera view at all times.
Citizens must be able to download, copy, and independently analyze all surveillance footage without restriction.
Criminal penalties for obstruction or concealment apply.
Transparency of Election Officer Communications
All planning documents, communications, directives, and training materials must be published in real time.
No election management actions may occur in secrecy.
The Election Management Office operates solely on behalf of the people and must maintain full public observability.
Preservation of Election Records
All election-related materials must be preserved for fifty (50) years minimum.
Materials Include: ballots, VRL records, chain-of-custody logs, video footage, communications, software logs, public reports, and full operating system and system state captures of all election-related machines.
System snapshots must be taken before, during, and after election operations.
Preservation must use redundant, geographically dispersed storage.
Integrity protections (cryptographic hashes, chain-of-custody for archives) are mandatory.
Citizens must have full continuous access to all preserved materials for the entire retention period.
Severe penalties apply for failure to preserve records or ensure accessibility.
No Action Required for Access
Citizens must not be required to file requests, pay fees, or navigate bureaucratic hurdles to access election materials.
All records must be proactively published in open, accessible, machine-readable formats.
Access must be immediate, continuous, and preserved for 50 years without interruption.
Publishing deliberately inaccessible formats or imposing hidden barriers constitutes a violation of election integrity.
Closing
Transparent elections are the foundation of legitimate governance.
When citizens are empowered to observe, verify, and hold every stage of the election process accountable, trust is earned — not demanded.
Secrecy, obstruction, and delay have no place in a free republic.
Transparency is not an administrative preference; it is a constitutional requirement for the preservation of liberty.
We defend election transparency because without it, self-governance ceases to exist.