By Scott Leiendecker, Founder and Chairman, Liberty Vote
Liberty Vote was founded on a mission that is simple but essential: to deliver election technology that is transparent, secure, accessible, and reliable—and to help ensure confidence in our elections process.
My journey to this point began in Missouri nearly 25 years ago. I started my career in the Secretary of State’s office before serving as Director of Elections for the City of St. Louis. Those years, spent supporting, organizing and managing elections on the ground, shaped my belief that election technology should serve the people who run elections and the voters they serve—not the other way around.
In 2011, I founded KNOWiNK because I saw firsthand that election officials needed better tools—systems designed around their day-to-day realities. That vision led to the creation of the Poll Pad, which became the first and only federally-certified electronic poll book in the United States. In 2024, KNOWiNK’s technology supported one in four American voters across 1,900 jurisdictions in 37 states. That success wasn’t about size; it was about reliability, accuracy and performance under pressure.
As a former election administrator, I know confidence in elections begins with the people who run them. When officials have confidence in their systems, voters have confidence in the process. That belief is at the heart of Liberty Vote. We will deliver products and systems that help election officials conduct elections competently, securely and with confidence—systems that are reliable and grounded in real-world experience.
Liberty Vote represents a new chapter in American election technology. It’s a company rooted in service—to election officials, to voters, and to democracy itself. We built KNOWiNK by listening to election officials, poll workers and voters. We will use that same approach with a commitment to collaboration, communication, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Missouri will always be where this story began—and where I learned that elections are ultimately about service: to voters, to communities and to the democratic process itself. That perspective continues to guide every decision we make.
From my early years running elections in St. Louis to leading companies that now serve millions of voters nationwide, my mission has remained constant: to build technology that helps election officials do their jobs with competence, confidence and integrity.
Liberty Vote is the next step in that mission—an American company dedicated to ensuring confidence in every election it touches, by delivering systems that simply work.
Scott Leiendecker, a nationally-recognized expert in elections, is the founder of Liberty Vote, which recently acquired Dominion Voting Systems.