BalliCure is a website that corrects rejected ballot signatures.
Vote-by-mail is now a critical electoral institution. Urgency to implement systems state-by-state is increasing as the 2020 election gets closer.
However, there are genuine concerns. Vote-by-mail introduces a complex ecosystem where EVERY state has get EVERY part right. There is some cause for concern. A couple of requirements for a fair vote-by-mail election:
- Resilient postal service
- Verifiable vote counting
- Accessible vote tracking
- Quick ballot curing (Process of correcting ballots with mistakes)
- When a mail-in-vote's ballot is rejected, election offices have to inform and receive a cure with the voter through mail. That could take weeks!
- A half of a million ballots were rejected in 2020's primaries.
BalliCure is a minimal website that cures signatures. A well oiled cog in a larger ballot curing system.
Voters receive a text message that guides them to cure their ballot online.
- Fixes rejected signatures in minutes versus weeks.
- Add ballots to through a dead simple REST API. (Not implemented)
- Doesn't store identities and vote choices, safe to expose to the internet.
First download Ballicure.
git clone https://github.com/mooshoe/ballicure.git
Running in production:
npm start
Development:
DEBUG=curing:* npm run develop