Check the whole election yourself · Open Voting Project

Download the checker.

It’s open source, and it’s maintained independently of any voting machine company.

Even the download has a fingerprint, so you know you got the real thing.

ovp-check

Open source · free to run

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Download fingerprinta91f…3d07✓

Point it at your county.

Pick any county, or the whole state. It downloads the same public records every auditor and reporter uses.

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Watch it check everything.

Seals, machine fingerprints, ballots versus voters, paper keys, and a full recount of every single ballot. On a normal laptop, a county takes minutes.

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Get a straight answer.

Either your count matches the official result exactly, or it shows you precisely where it doesn’t.

Measure 1OfficialYours

Option A119,840119,840

Option B110,370110,370

Option C17,98017,980

✓ Your count matches the official result exactly.

Leave it running as a watchdog.

Flip one switch and it keeps watching around the clock, comparing notes with every other watchdog. See what the watchdog does →

Watchdog mode

Watching Sample County · checked 12 seconds ago

Comparing notes with 37 other watchdogs

All tripwires clear

Don’t trust the checker either.

The records are in a simple, published format. Read every line of the checker’s code, or write your own. A basic recount takes a few lines.

my_recount.py

# Count every ballot on the public list
totals = {}
for entry in load("measure-1.json"):
    totals[entry.choice] = totals.get(entry.choice, 0) + 1

print(totals)