Case Study: Open Source Election Technology (OSET) Foundation achieves secure, scalable, cost-effective cloud election systems with Amazon Web Services (AWS GovCloud)

OSET Foundation Using AWS to Advance Cloud-Based Election Innovations

The OSET Foundation’s TrustTheVote™ Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing open source election technology to replace aging, proprietary, and hard-to-audit voting systems. Election officials face unsupported hardware, tight budgets, and fragile local websites and processes that strain logistics and erode public confidence, creating a need for inspectable, scalable, and cost-effective solutions.

OSET hosts its cloud-native apps on AWS GovCloud (US), delivering voter registration, ballot design, and results reporting with the security, compliance, and scalability required for sensitive elections data. The cloud-based, open source approach eliminates hardware costs, enables faster deployments, and gives states and counties a pay-as-you-go, auditable platform to improve efficiency, resilience, and public trust in elections.

Open Source Election Technology