Testing reports from voting system laboratories are one of the best ways for the public to understand the technical aspects of our #election infrastructure. #voting #cybersecurity

These reports go all the way back before the turn of the millennium. They include technical details about how election technology functions, bounds of certification, and issues encountered when testing (these often crop up in other states...).

And they weren't always public. You can thank @JoeBeOne in part for that change. Page 6 https://josephhall.org/papers/ACCURATE_VSTCP_comment.pdf (From 2006!)

States are constantly paying labs directly to test their voting systems, and then re-using testing from previous years and from other states. This testing is also re-used at the federal level. It's another important paper trail in elections.

Yet as state administrations, IT staff, and web infrastructure change - reports are lost to history. There's no centralized repository for storing these reports, which could offer key insights into voting system operations for other jurisdictions and integrity advocates

So if you have test reports, send them to me. Contact me via twitter. I'm setting up a site over the holidays. Nothing fancy. Each report will have a chain of custody note and will be hashed.

These voting system test reports are a critical, little known artifact in our elections process that are often overlooked. Tell your fav election administrators, academics, & advocates to send them me way! : ) #fiduciademos #sorrymylatinsucks #voting