The Election Technology Initiative is dedicated to maintaining and supporting open-source technologies that ease administrative and financial burdens on election offices, increase access for all voters regardless of location, disability or language, while also improving voter confidence in election results.
The Election Technology Initiative is a state-driven program that will maintain and support open-source election software tools that election officials in all states can use to improve security, access and voter confidence while reducing the administrative and financial burden of elections.
The Election Technology Initiative was established in 2023 as a partnership between The Council of State Governments and The Turnout.
The Council of State Governments is America’s largest organization of state officials and the nation’s only nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization serving all three branches of state government. Founded in 1933, CSG is a region-based forum that fosters the exchange of insights and ideas to help state officials shape public policy to help communities across the nation and advance the common good.
For over nine decades, CSG has leveraged the power of states learning from states, helping build a stronger nation by harvesting the best ideas and solutions from the states, our nations’ laboratories of democracy.
Casandra Hockenberry
Project Manager
The Council of State Governments
chockenberry@csg.org
The Turnout brings decades of experience in technology and policy and a deep commitment to understanding each client’s unique goals and challenges. By leveraging established relationships and expertise, The Turnout assembles a skilled team to develop grounded and actionable solutions—constantly collaborating with clients rather than simply working for them.
The Turnout helps public and private organizations better understand and assess their operational processes, conduct thorough policy and workflow assessments, apply security assessments to existing systems and procurement processes, and visualize and analyze their workflows. The Turnout’s projects encompass a wide range of services, including business process modeling, policy research, data analysis, custom program development, and project administration.
Jared Marcotte
President
The Turnout
jared@turnout.rocks
Led by state officials, the Election Technology Initiative is facilitated by The Turnout and The Council of State Governments.
CONTACT
Jared Marcotte
President, The Turnout
jared@turnout.rocks
Casandra Hockenberry
Project Manager, The Council of State Governments
chockenberry@csg.org
