Hi, my name is Alex D. Bedford. I am a software engineer who has worked on projects contracted and leveraged by the British government and its representatives. I built this platform as a journalistic outlet in the public interest, to document the circumvention of democratic accountability by those established to uphold it.
In 2020, the UK Labour Party procured a voting platform called Anonyvoter without tender, without audit, and without basic security controls. A source code analysis revealed 8 critical vulnerabilities and 6 structural deficiencies — a system designed to allow vote rigging with no logging, no oversight, and no way to verify outcomes.
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When a single vendor controls the infrastructure, the database, and the authentication, there is no separation of duties. When there is no audit trail, there is no accountability. When there is no accountability, there is no democracy.
Political parties using closed source voting software for candidate selection create a single point of failure. The systems that determine who holds power are not being protected.
MI5 has a mandate to protect democratic integrity. GCHQ monitors cyber threats to critical infrastructure. NCSC is the national cyber security centre. None of them acted when the UK Labour Party procured a voting platform with no audit trail, no encryption, and no separation of duties.
Our Demand
'Any party using closed source voting software must be disqualified from standing in general elections.'
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We develop open-source software for secure, auditable democratic processes. The code is public and anyone can deploy or audit it.
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