Sequent, a global leader in cryptographically secured digital election platforms, announced today that it has advanced the implementation of the VoteSecure protocol into its election technology platform. VoteSecure is an open-source software development kit designed to enable end-to-end (E2E) verifiable mobile voting. This milestone positions Sequent as the first publicly declared election technology provider to further integrate the VoteSecure framework.
The announcement comes at a time of declining confidence in democratic processes and increasing demand for transparency and verifiability in elections. VoteSecure, combined with Sequent's existing cryptographic technologies, addresses these concerns by producing cryptographically verifiable evidence at every critical step of the election process—from voter eligibility to ballot casting and result counting. This allows voters, election observers, and auditors to ensure that every ballot was correctly cast, recorded, and counted, offering a level of transparency that traditional paper-based systems alone cannot provide.
The VoteSecure protocols were developed by Free & Fair, a voting technology research company, and released in November 2025 after 16 months of development aligned with the U.S. Vote Foundation's "Future of Voting" report. The framework supports multi-factor authentication, biometric identity verification, and air-gapped tabulation, where votes are tabulated only after being taken offline, with paper printouts generated alongside digital records.
"We are at an inflection point in democratic history," said Shai Bargil, CEO and Co-Founder of Sequent. "Voters are asking whether their voices truly count, and election administrators are asking how to prove it. The VoteSecure protocol helps to answer both questions with mathematical certainty. Our implementation represents an important advancement for election technology in the U.S. because it moves electoral processes closer toward open, independently auditable, and cryptographically verifiable elections."
Sequent's platform already supports over 330 elections and has served more than 9.2 million voters across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company's implementation of VoteSecure translates the protocol's technical specification into real-world election infrastructure. Unlike traditional "black box" election technologies that rely on institutional trust, VoteSecure is built on publicly auditable cryptographic protocols and open-source transparency principles. The architecture incorporates threshold cryptography, verifiable shuffling and decryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and air-gapped tabulation to strengthen election integrity while maintaining voter privacy.
The framework also relied on Rigorous Digital Engineering (RDE), a formal model-based systems engineering methodology focused on analyzable specifications, formal verification, and high-assurance software development practices used in critical infrastructure and national security systems. "Election integrity can no longer rely solely on blind trust," added Bargil. "Modern election systems must provide verifiable evidence that votes were securely cast, accurately recorded, and properly counted. Open standards and publicly auditable election infrastructure will play a major role in rebuilding confidence in democratic processes over the coming decade."
The VoteSecure protocols are open source and publicly available for review and integration. For more information, visit sequentech.io.
