Much of OSDV’s currrent work relates to election technology for voter registration.* In recent blog posts, I’ve been talking about voter registration in the context of OSDV’s mission to put much needed, innovative election technology into the hands of elections officials and voters who are underserved by the best that the for-profit election technology market [...]
Online Voter Registration for Jurisdictions Large and Small
May 16th, 2012 by E. John Sebes
As I wrote last time, I had the wonderful opportunity to observe a citizenship oath ceremony. It had a big emphasis on voting, and included San Francisco elections department people on hand to help the new citizens register to vote. Today, I wanted to share the flip side of what I saw, and I want [...]
Movement to Bring Open Source to Government Being Reorganized
Feb 13th, 2012 by Gregory Miller
Greetings-
Just a quick post to suggest an interesting report out this afternoon on the TechPresident blog. The move to consolidate the efforts of Civic Commons (home of Open311.org) and Code For America (CfA), notwithstanding the likely trigger being Civic Common’s leader, Nick Grossman moving on, actually makes sense to us. CfA’s Jennifer Pahlka’s write up [...]
At the Risk of Running off the Rails
Jan 7th, 2012 by Gregory Miller
So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world. Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.” I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity [...]
Temporarily Missing, But Still in Action
Dec 31st, 2011 by Gregory Miller
Happy “Holidaze”
On the eve of 2012 we so need to check in here and let you know we’re still fighting the good fight and have been totally distracted by a bunch of activities. There is much to catch you up on and we’ll start doing that in the ensuing days, but for [...]
An Independence Holiday Reflection: IP Reform and Innovation in Elections Technology
Jul 4th, 2011 by Gregory Miller
On this Independence Day I gave some reflection to the intentions of our founding fathers, and how that relates to our processes of elections and the innovations we should strive for to ensure accuracy, transparency, verification, and security. And as I thought about this more while gazing out at one of the world’s most precious [...]
Election Transparency Must be Apolitical
May 27th, 2011 by Gregory Miller
For those of you who have been following the recount saga in Wisconsin, here is a bit of news, and a reflection on that.
So, the news from a couple of days ago (I’m just catching up) is that the process of re-counting is complete, but the resolution of that close election may [...]
Detours in Election Technology: The “Open” Factor and Mobility
May 17th, 2011 by E. John Sebes
In a recent posting, I recalled the old-fashioned traditional proprietary-IT-think of vendors leveraging their proprietary data for their customers, and contrasted that with election technology where the data is public.
In the “open data” approach, you do not need to have integrated reporting features as part of a voting system or election management system. Instead, you [...]
Detours in Election Technology: The “Open” Factor and Tradeoffs
May 16th, 2011 by E. John Sebes
During some recent election technology adoption discussions, I’ve realized how some standard proprietary-IT-think has affected acquisitions of election technology. And it is a mind-set that I used to have too, back when I was in the enterprise IT infrastructure business.
Back then, the normal thing was to have a core technology with some primary value, a [...]
Naturalization, Citizenship, and Voter Registration
Apr 18th, 2012 by E. John Sebes
I’m sitting in the historic grand Paramount Theater in Oakland, California. Perhaps an odd place from which to return to blogging after some time, but I wanted to re-start on a personal note that’s also quite connected to the voter registration technology work that we’ve been doing over the last many months.
I’ve just witnessed a [...]
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