Don't trust us. Read the code.
Most organizations handling voter data ask you to accept their assurances. We would rather you not have to. Everything below is a claim you can check yourself, which is the only kind of claim worth making about data this sensitive.
Structurally inert, and you can confirm it
The public dashboard displays aggregated counts and nothing else. It carries no backend URL, no API key, and no path to a voter record — not because we promise to be careful, but because the capability isn't in the deployed code. That used to be something you had to take on faith. The repository is public and MIT licensed, so now it's something you can verify in an afternoon. Audit by inspection beats audit by attestation.
Your notes stay yours
Real voter data and everything a captain records at a door live on local infrastructure under the party's control. They are not uploaded to us, not pooled across counties without consent, and not sold under any circumstance. They are exportable on demand, in a format you can take somewhere else. A tool you cannot walk away from isn't infrastructure — it's a dependency, and we would rather lose your business than build one.
What we publish about the data itself
Ohio's voter file is genuinely difficult to read correctly, and quietly getting it wrong is the failure mode that matters. A field named for a city turns out to be a postal designation rather than a jurisdiction. A party field records the most recent primary ballot within a moving window, not registration. Blank cells are empty strings rather than nulls. We publish the full ledger of these traps, county by county, alongside the code — including the ones we got wrong first and had to correct.
What we don't claim yet
We are a small operation building carefully, not an enterprise vendor with a compliance department. We are not SOC 2 certified and we are not going to imply otherwise on a marketing page. What we offer instead is the thing certification is a proxy for: you can read every line that touches your data, and you can leave with it whenever you want. When a formal audit becomes the right use of money, we'll do it and publish the result.