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The mission of the Elections Security Research Facility (ESRF) is to be the nation’s most comprehensive civic technology research facility for scholars, journalists, investigators, policy-makers, and the general public. ESRF will include primary material and data sources related to technology for public elections and other democracy-affirming civic institutions. To apply for access, you must register using the form below to briefly explain the role you plan to play in gathering or using the data and documents in the ESRF repository. ESRF will post significant data events, key findings, and associated curated data at regular intervals. Long-term plans for the facility will be announced at a launch event and workshop on the Georgia Tech campus in late 2023.

Litigants in the long-running federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s uniform election technology system recently published a comprehensive collection of motions, declarations, and exhibits supporting and opposing a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the suit. This document repository (and the thousands of related reports, transcripts, and briefs cited therein) is the most complete and coherent compendium of material facts, expert analysis, and judicial findings on technical and legal aspects of voting technology. Since it includes the 2019 federal court ruling that first-generation touch-screen voting machines unconstitutionally burden the right to vote, ESRF encompasses, in essence, the known arguments for and against all future election technologies that threaten ballot secrecy and other long-held principles, especially Internet and mobile voting. In addition to cybersecurity and related topics, ESRF enables engineering studies and technology forecasts that relate technical system characteristics to the logistics, cost, design, and implementation of election administration rules and policies.

Apply for access to ESRF by filling out the form below. To be granted research access, you must either be affiliated with a public or private university or other recognized research organization or a credentialed journalist. In either case, use your professional email and explain the nature of your work in the space provided. Public access is limited to data submissions associated with public elections. If you register as a citizen scientist ESRF will notify you when data is being solicited from your jurisdiction. Please tell us where you vote in local, state, and federal elections.