DECENT Elections, LLC develops OSAKA, an open‑source, cryptographic voting platform that lets voters use their own personal devices to cast and audit ballots securely. By employing asymmetric‑key algorithms and digital signatures, OSAKA replaces traditional paper ballots and proprietary voting machines with verifiable, end‑to‑end encrypted votes, enabling anyone to independently verify election results in real time. The system also provides transparent public results, allowing full audits by any observer.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional elections rely on paper ballots or proprietary voting machines that are difficult to audit, vulnerable to tampering, and require trusted hardware and processes that are often opaque to voters and observers.
Solution
DECENT Elections offers the OSAKA platform, an open‑source, asymmetric‑key voting system that enables voters to cast ballots securely on their own personal devices. The system uses strong digital signatures to cryptographically protect each vote and publishes all election data publicly, allowing anyone to verify results in real time. By combining open‑source code with user‑controlled hardware, OSAKA eliminates reliance on black‑box machines and provides end‑to‑end integrity and full auditability of the election process.
Target Audience
Primary customers are election authorities, government agencies, and organizations that conduct large‑scale voting events and require a verifiable, secure, and auditable digital voting solution.
Features
- Open‑source election software that can be inspected and verified by any stakeholder
- Asymmetric‑key cryptography with digital signatures to ensure each ballot is tamper‑proof
- Compatibility with personal computing devices, removing the need for dedicated voting hardware
- Publicly published election data enabling independent, real‑time audits of vote counts
- Transparent audit tools that allow voters and observers to verify that their individual votes are included in the final tally