Are you a technology professional interested in election integrity? A geek who believes every vote should be recorded as intended? A techie who stands for reliable and publicly verifiable election systems?

If so, TechWatch is for you!

TechWatch volunteers will receive training and participate in important non-partisan election monitoring activities, observing and documenting:

• Logic & Accuracy testing of voting technology by election officials prior to Election Day
• Poll Watching on Election Day (assigned to a single polling place or central election office)
• Election Incidents on Election Day (on dispatch from an Election Incident Reporting System to polling places within a given county)

By applying technical expertise to mind the polls, TechWatch volunteers can chronicle election problems at this upcoming election and future elections, as well as for follow-on litigation and policymaking, in a way that most poll watchers cannot.

More than 1400 technologists have already volunteered, but it will take thousands of TechWatch volunteers to cover priority states and key counties, starting with the Florida primary on August 31 and continuing through to the November 2 general election.

Volunteer Now!

To volunteer, please send an email to volunteer@verifiedvoting.org with your name, location, and telephone numbers.

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A variety of organizations are setting up election watch projects and training volunteers to serve as poll monitors.

The Verified Voting Foundation is uniquely capable to assist voter protection organizations in their activities by:

• Recruiting technology professionals and organizing them to be on call to observe election equipment incidents and procedures
• Providing training materials relating to electronic voting concerns
• Assisting activists with key technological questions to ask election officials prior to the election
• Researching detailed information about the specific voting systems that will be used in priority states

There are opportunities prior to and after the election where citizens can observe the pre-election testing processes and post-election vote-counting process to ensure these processes are conducted in a legal and open manner. By providing citizens who monitor polling places and the voting process with detailed information about their voting systems and procedures, the project will help ensure such monitoring efforts succeed in producing a fair vote count.

Please join with Verified Voting Foundation and our current and invited partners: Advancement Project, Americas' Families United Voter Protection Project, BlackBoxVoting, California Voter Foundation, Citizen's Alliance for Secure Elections (Ohio), Common Cause, CompuMentor, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Global Exchange Fair Election Project, National Committee for Voting Integrity, People for the American Way, ACORN / Project Vote, Quixote Foundation, TrueVoteMD, Unity '04 / National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, Usenix, VotersUnite, Working Assets / ActForChange, and others.