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 info@sfopenvoting.org. 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.
5. Nadia Eghbal, open-source writer, researcher, and speaker.
6. Adam Kim, Candidate for Board of Supervisors
7. Adrian Artiles
8. Adriel Hampton
9. Adrienne Suffin
10. Alan Shreve
11. Albert Kochaphum
12. Alex Rattray
13. Alex Volkobily
14. Alexandra Abdel-Malek
15. Amy Farah Weiss
16. Amy Hamblin
17. Angela Sibelman
18. Anna Heredia
19. Areej Bazzari
20. Arman Jaffer
21. Armand Silva
22. Asheesh Laroia
23. Austin Gunter
24. Aviv Ovadya
25. Barbara Commins
26. Barney Jackson
27. Barry Hermanson, Green Party
28. Beatrice Krivetsky
29. Ben Rollin
30. Bernard Choden
31. Bob Demchick
32. Brandon Harami
33. Caitlin Barta
34. Carlos Valero
35. Catherine Bellin
36. Catherine Zhang
37. Cecilia Ciccone
38. Chandra Friese
39. Christian Einfeldt
40. Christine Dela Rosa
41. Cody Calamia
42. Conor Ryan
43. David Ernst, Candidate for State Assembly D19
44. David Heilbron
45. David Hincapie
46. David Rapaport
47. David Yoon
48. Deborah Lyon
49. Debra Solomon
50. Denise Grab
51. Dolores Priem
52. Ellee Koss, PhD
53. Ellen Price
54. Emma You
55. Eric Brooks
56. Erin Mullaney
57. Fred Lipschultz
58. Fred Ostapik
59. Geoffrey Pay
60. Giuliana Milanese
61. Glen Van Lehn
62. Gloria Archuleta
63. Hannah Burak
64. Harsha Raju
65. Hofit Lenchner
66. Hunter Cutting
67. James Enright
68. Jay Wilson
69. Jeanne Crawford
70. Jeff Hanke
71. Jenn Georgevich
72. Jennifer Stowell, MPA
73. Jesse Szwedko
74. John & Ann Baker
75. John Dentinger
76. John E. Palmer
77. John Thompson
78. John-Marc Chandonia
79. John-Michael Scott
80. Jona Raphael
81. Jonathan McKeever
82. Joshua Sibelman
83. Julie Zhou
84. Justin Jones
85. Justin Kruger
86. Karen Stern
87. Karl Schultz
88. Karl Uhlig
89. Kevin Jenkins
90. Kurt Spindler
91. Lance Carnes
92. Lance Smith
93. Laura Day
94. Laurel Kilgour
95. Lauren McGill
96. Lee Grant
97. Logan Williams
98. Lois H. Scott
99. Luis Alberto Reyes
100. Maddie Schults
101. Malcolm Handley
102. Martin MacKerel
103. Mary Leatherman
104. Mathias Brandewinder
105. Matt Brictson
106. Matt Johnson
107. Matt Pauker
108. Matthew King
109. Matthew Pancia
110. Michael Warr
111. Mike Caccioppoli
112. Mike Kurokawa
113. Mike Murphy
114. Mikeal Rogers
115. Milo Toor
116. Mirka Morales
117. Mo Shooer
118. Monica Rosales
119. Murray Pender
120. Nicholas Howells
121. Nick Pasquariello
122. Nihir Shah
123. Nikolas Baron
124. Nitin Garg
125. Noah Swartz
126. Noah Zoschke
127. Noel Commins
128. Pamela Mardo
129. Paolo Villacarlos
130. Pat Koren
131. Paul Bellar
132. Paul Tsier
133. Pauline Kahney
134. Pete McCarthy
135. Phil Li
136. Philip Neustrom
137. Phylis Demchick
138. Praveen Kumar
139. Rahul Nihalani
140. Rich Stone
141. Richard Girling
142. Richard Ivanhoe
143. Richard W. Price
144. Rick St. John
145. Rob Lanphier
146. Robert Kroeger
147. Robin Krop
148. Robin Larsen
149. Rochelle Lee
150. Roger Sinasohn
151. Sameeran Kunche
152. Sara and Peter Ogilvie
153. Sean Donahue
154. Shant Mesrobian
155. Sonni E. Willis
156. Stedman Hood
157. Stephen Jaffe
158. Steven Mazliach
159. Summer Rose
160. Susan Jaffe
161. Susan Setterholm
162. Suzanne Bushnell
163. Suzanne Cowan
164. Thomas Lotze
165. Thomas Mullaney
166. Thomas Smyth
167. Tim Wayne
168. Tom Cho
169. Tom Watson
170. Tony Kelly
171. Tony Santos
172. Travis Hairfield
173. Trevor P. Martin
174. Troy Deck
175. Val Polouchkine
176. Verna Shaheen
177. Vi Huynh
178. William Fitzgerald
179. William R. Schultz
180. Winnie Porter
181. Xavier Damman
182. Zack Johns
183. Zoe Kelman

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.