The Mobile Voting Project

What The Mobile Voting Project does

The Mobile Voting Project is a private, non-partisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit headquartered in New York that advances mobile voting adoption in U.S. elections through a combination of technology development, legislative advocacy, and public education. It was founded by venture capitalist Bradley Tusk and, as of February 2026, is led by CEO Sheila Nix. Since 2018, the organization has run 21 secure mobile voting pilots across 7 states, with 330 jurisdictions having piloted mobile voting overall; clean audits by the National Cybersecurity Center have validated the majority of these pilots. The organization actively campaigns for enabling legislation in Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Vermont, plus New York City.

The organization's core product is VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic software development kit (SDK) for mobile voting, developed in partnership with election technology firm Free & Fair and publicly hosted on GitHub. VoteSecure provides end-to-end encryption, end-to-end verifiability, multi-factor and optional biometric facial recognition authentication, ballot tracking via tracking codes, accessibility features leveraging voters' own device assistive technologies, and an airgapped paper counting workflow in which digital ballots are physically printed and tabulated alongside mail-in and absentee ballots. Voters download the mobile voting app from their local board of elections after the relevant jurisdiction has authorized mobile voting.

The business model is nonprofit donation- and grant-funded; the VoteSecure technology itself is provided free of charge to any government that wishes to use it, with no licensing fees, subscriptions, or pricing tiers. The go-to-market motion combines legislative advocacy (pushing enabling bills in targeted states and cities), direct partnerships with election officials to implement pilots, and public-facing advocacy via the organization's website, email list, volunteer toolkit, and earned media coverage. End-user voter segments emphasized include voters with disabilities (38 million Americans), military and overseas voters, displaced voters, workers without schedule flexibility, working mothers, and digital-native younger generations, all of whom face access barriers under traditional voting infrastructure.

Name

The Mobile Voting Project

Legal name

The Mobile Voting Project

Website

https://mobilevoting.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Mobile Voting Project is a New York-based nonprofit that develops the open-source VoteSecure cryptographic mobile voting SDK and advocates for enabling legislation in U.S. states and cities, serving state and local election jurisdictions and underserved voter segments such as military, overseas, disabled, and digital-native voters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Election Technology Software

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Electoral Support & Election Observation (BPADAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Digital Rights, Privacy & Free Expression Advocacy (BPAGAFAL), Mobile Application Security (App Shielding, Anti-Tamper) (HDADACAL)

Keywords

• Mobile voting technology
• Election security software
• Open source voting
• Civic technology
• Election administration

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: As a nonprofit organization, The Mobile Voting Project is funded through donations and grants from supporters. The technology itself is provided free of charge to governments.
2. Technology Provision (Free): The mobile voting technology (VoteSecure) is open source and free to any government anywhere that wants to use it. No revenue is generated from the technology itself.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Mobile Voting Project develops and advocates for VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic software development kit that lets voters cast a verified, end-to-end encrypted ballot on their smartphone. The technology is offered free to any U.S. government, and the organization supplements the technology with legislative advocacy in targeted states and cities and public education campaigns to drive adoption.

Product overview

The Mobile Voting Project is a nonprofit advocating for mobile phone voting in U.S. elections, with a primary product called VoteSecure — an open-source cryptographic SDK and protocol developed in partnership with the election technology firm Free & Fair. The organization also provides a mobile voting app through which eligible voters download a ballot to their smartphone, authenticate via multi-factor and optionally biometric means, verify their encrypted ballot, and submit it to a digital ballot box before it is airgapped, decrypted, printed, and counted alongside traditional absentee ballots. VoteSecure is the foundational technology layer, while the mobile voting app is the voter-facing implementation of it. The organization supplements its technology work with advocacy campaigns and a volunteer toolkit to drive legislative adoption.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VoteSecure: Open-source software development kit for mobile voting technology, developed together with election tech firm Free & Fair. The core cryptographic protocol enables fully secure and verifiable mobile voting elections.

Products and services

• VoteSecure Open-source cryptographic software development kit and protocol for secure, auditable mobile voting. Provides end-to-end encryption, end-to-end verifiability, multi-factor and optional biometric facial recognition authentication, ballot tracking via tracking codes, and an airgapped paper counting workflow in which digitally submitted votes are taken offline and printed for tabulation alongside traditional mail-in and absentee ballots. Designed for adoption by U.S. state and local election authorities and offered free of charge.

Quantifiable outcome

• Turnout increased by more than 200% in King County, WA after offering mobile voting
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Free & FaircoreTechnology or IntegrationFree & Fair is an election technology firm that partnered with The Mobile Voting Project to develop VoteSecure, the open-source software development kit for mobile voting. Together they created a smartphone app development kit for fully secure and verifiable online elections.
• National Cybersecurity CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe National Cybersecurity Center audited the majority of the mobile voting pilots launched since 2018. In every case, the audits came back clean, validating the security of the mobile voting technology.
• Council of State GovernmentsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization partners with the Council of State Governments on resources regarding electronic ballot return for military and overseas voters, providing considerations for achieving balance between security and ballot access.
• Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with FVAP on resources for overseas citizen population analysis and voting assistance for military members and their families.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Election Systems & Software (ES&S): Largest U.S. voting equipment vendor, supplying tabulation machines and ballot-marking devices to most states. Operates in the same customer base (election jurisdictions) but competes indirectly as a legacy precinct-and-mail incumbent rather than a mobile/internet-voting specialist.
• Hart InterCivic: U.S. voting machine vendor (Verity system) used by hundreds of counties. Overlaps with The Mobile Voting Project in serving U.S. election administrators but is positioned in the traditional in-person/mail precinct workflow rather than mobile voting.
• Dominion Voting Systems: Major U.S. voting machine and election management system vendor. Shares the same election-official customer base but competes indirectly as a broader-portfolio incumbent, not a mobile-voting specialist.
• Scytl: International election technology vendor best known for supplying secure online voting platforms used by several European governments. Highly comparable on the online/internet voting product dimension but operates at a much broader geographic and governmental scale than The Mobile Voting Project.

Direct peers

• Voatz: Pioneered mobile voting apps for military/overseas voters and ran pilots in multiple U.S. states. Directly comparable product (smartphone ballot casting), target market (state election offices), and security feature set (biometric/MFA), though it has faced heightened scrutiny after a 2020 academic audit.
• Free & Fair: Election technology firm that co-developed the VoteSecure cryptographic SDK with The Mobile Voting Project. Builds open-source, end-to-end verifiable election systems and is the closest peer in terms of technology stack, customers (election jurisdictions), and security architecture.
• Democracy Live: Provides digital ballot delivery and marking tools (OmniBallot) used by military, overseas, and disabled voters across dozens of U.S. jurisdictions. Closely overlaps with The Mobile Voting Project on use case (remote ballot return) and customer base (election administrators).

Regional players

• Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) e-Elections program: Operates Estonia's national internet voting system, the longest-running large-scale mobile/online voting deployment in the world. Functionally analogous to The Mobile Voting Project's vision (citizen voting via personal device) but tied to a single national government rather than a multi-state U.S. advocacy effort.

Emerging players

• VotingWorks: Nonprofit building open-source election technology (risk-limiting audit, vote-by-mail tabulator). Shares the nonprofit, open-source, jurisdiction-focused model and competes for the same civic-tech donor and government-adopter mindshare as The Mobile Voting Project.
• Microsoft ElectionGuard: Microsoft's open-source SDK for end-to-end verifiable elections, used in pilots in Wisconsin and Fulton County. Targets the same problem (verifiable digital ballot casting) and offers a comparable SDK distribution model, but backed by a single large incumbent vendor rather than a standalone nonprofit.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/FreeAndFair/VoteSecure
• Xx.com/mobilevoting
• Facebookfacebook.com/MobileVotingUS
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mobilevoting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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