Transparency Voting Systems (TVS)
Working to restore citizens’ trust in elections and referenda.
What is TVS?
Transparency Voting Systems (TVS) is an early-stage company focused on developing electoral transparency technology.
The Problem
Transparency was sacrificed at the altar of automation.
This opened the door to deep cybersecurity exploits that enabled election result manipulation that went undetected for years. Data scientists, including the founders of TVS, used powerful mathematical analyses to expose these manipulations. Their work has now been confirmed by police investigations, including testimonies by perpetrators turned whistleblowers. Insecure elections now pose a deep threat to democracy all around the world.
Learn MoreManual or electronic?
Trust in manual systems has long been undermined by their vulnerabilities. Yet, they have the advantage of being easy to understand and offering some transparency. Fully electronic systems have failed to gather public trust. Voters feel that there is no guarantee that their vote counts, and the results of recent investigations support their concerns.
Learn MoreEarn trust through transparency
Our goal is to build an electoral system with an unprecedented level of transparency. A hybrid system that combines the best of manual and electronic voting to make large-scale fraud unfeasible. We will draw from our unique experience detecting anomalies through the use of math, and related investigations over many years.
Core Design Values
Transparency
Trust comes from transparency, not from certifications. No special knowledge should be required to understand how results are produced.
Redundancy
Follow the "Swiss Cheese Model" of safety: multiple independent layers reduce the risk of catastrophic failure.
Verifiability
Results and data must be verifiable through documented and repeatable procedures.
Self-restraint
What should not change must not be changeable (immutability). Minimize insider knowledge that could lead to manipulation of the final result.
TACO
Transparent Automated Counting
A critical slice in our multi-layered Swiss Cheese security model. Our technology makes automated vote counting fully transparent to any human observer. The system scans ballots and produces two outputs: the results and a video that shows every ballot being read and counted in real time, using visible tally marks.
This is just one important component of the full hybrid system. Multiple other security layers are currently being developed to avoid corruption and manipulation.
We're currently raising funds for research, development and production. Learn more about how we're using this funding through our YouTube and X channels.
The Team
MS. Mechanical Engineer / Computational Thinker
Electoral fraud expert. Software engineer with 20+ years in the automotive industry. Former professor (UCV).
Physicist
Electoral fraud expert. Author of "The Power of Math" book and the "Dangerous Connections" documentary.
Physicist / Technologist
Chief Scientist, former IT Director at CERN, Switzerland and Port d’Informació Científica, Spain. Expert in massive data processing.
Let's talk.
We're raising to build the remaining layers of the hybrid system. If verifiable elections are worth funding, we'd like to show you TACO in more depth.