Abacus - about the new software for the Dutch Elections (hackerhotel2025)

The Election Council is working on Abacus, the tabulation software for the elections. Come to this workshop to try your hands on the software in a production-like setting and learn more about the choices and concepts behind it. The Election Council is working on Abacus, the tabulation software for the elections. This workshop will show you how it works, in a production style setting involving test data. After all the counting we take a tour through the GitHub repo (https://github.com/kiesraad/abacus), explain the architecture and choices behind the project so far. Come to this workshop if you are interested in the Dutch Elections and want to understand the actual process, learn about the software development that is being done and ask everything you always wanted to know. Do visit the presentation by Fleur van Leusden, our CISO. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://pretalx.hackerhotel.nl/2025/talk/7YBMR3/