Source code of the Estonian online voting system
- ID
- 36756
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 17 Oct 2026, 11:18 AM
- Fetched
- 18 Oct 2026, 7:49 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://github.com/valimised/ivxv
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 6.0
- Created
- 18 Oct 2026, 7:49 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
Estonia's State Electoral Office has published the source code of its IVXV online voting system on GitHub (valimised/ivxv), described as a public-review mirror rather than an active development repo — the code there is stated to be the code used for elections. The repo shows 466 stars, 65 forks, 30 watchers and only 13 commits, with top-level folders for auditor, collector-admin, key, mid, processor, proxy, smartid, webeid, xroad-service, votesorder and verification. It drew 214 points and 199 comments on Hacker News.
Why it matters
If you're evaluating claims about verifiable or internet voting — or building government-facing trust infrastructure — this gives you a real component map to read: a separate auditor, a vote-verification app, key management, Smart-ID/Mobile-ID and X-Road integration. But set expectations before diving in: it's a publication mirror with 13 commits and explicitly not used for active development, so there are no issues or PR workflow to learn from — treat it as a reference architecture, not a project to build on.
Discussion angle
Published-but-not-developed-in-the-open: with only 13 commits and no visible license detail in the page text, what would it actually take for outside developers to audit a system like this — and does Malaysia's own digital-government push need that kind of reviewable code, or just the PDFs?