Posted in Commentary on Apr 18th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source on Feb 13th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Development methodology, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 7th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary on Dec 31st, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Intellectual Property Protection on Jul 4th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on May 27th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Open Source on May 17th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform on May 16th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology on May 10th, 2011
Continuing our Bedrock election story (see parts one, two, and three if you need to catch up), we find the County of Bedrock Board of Elections staff, including design guru Dana Chisel, in the “ballot design studio,” a dusty back room of the BBoE. Chisels in hand, staffers ponder the blank slate, or rather sandstone, [...]
Posted in Announcements, Commentary, Foundation Administration, TrusttheVote / OSDV on May 4th, 2011
Greetings All-
Sorry we’ve been away from the podium here for a couple of weeks. We’re heads-down on some very exciting projects. But not nearly as exciting as what I have to announce today. Let’s get right to it.
The time has come. Some might argue it’s overdue. Growth of the activities and work here, and the [...]
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