Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 28th, 2010
Open Source Technology Licensing…
We’ve been promising to respond to the chorus of concerns that we may drift from the standard GPL for our forthcoming elections and voting systems software platform and technology. Finally, we can begin talking about it (mainly because I found a slice of time to do so, and not because of any [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Voting System Technology on Feb 16th, 2010
Tomorrow night starting at 4:30PM the San Francisco Voting Systems Task Force is holding a Public Hearing to intake testimony and public comment on its draft prospective recommendations topics. [Disclosure: I am a member of this Task Force, appointed by the S.F. City & County Board of Supervisors.]
We encourage everyone who can make it to [...]
Posted in Announcements, Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Information, MOVE Act, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 12th, 2010
The TrustTheVote Project issued its first formal “Call For Participation” (”CFP”) to its Stakeholder Community last evening, and five elections jurisdiction have already indicated interest.
The CFP is inviting collaboration from elections jurisdictions all over the country who need to determine how to comply with the mandates of the new federal MOVE Act — particularly the [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Feb 11th, 2010
Greetings-
So, I’ve taken a couple of days to decompress after a marathon of preparation for the Hearing this past Monday held by the CA Secretary of State. Unfortunately, Secretary Bowen could not attend and preside over this important hearing as she was a victim of the global weirding that is dumping snow in multiple feet [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology on Jan 25th, 2010
Twelve days ago without a lot of fanfare and perhaps overshadowed by the MOVE Act enactment, the House took a small step forward in pushing a modest voter registration modernization initiative when Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who is the most senior Republican on the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections, introduced the Responsible Online Voter Empowerment Registration [...]
Posted in Commentary, Voting System Technology on Jan 15th, 2010
Thanks again to David Jefferson for his post yesterday on the lessons for Internet voting of the Google/China news (NYT: In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity). To answer some follow-up questions, I’ll explain a bit about the term vote servers that David referred to.
Let’s start with a little background on Internet voting. Many [...]
Posted in Commentary, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2010
[My thanks to to election and tech expert David Jefferson for contributing this excellent, pithy, and though-provoking reflection on the day's top tech/policy news story. -- EJS]
Google recently announced in an important change of policy that it will stop censoring search results for queries coming from China. That is interesting in its own right, but [...]
Posted in Commentary, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Dec 25th, 2009
“Why, oh why?” you’re wondering (given our teaser title, that is). Well, at first we were we also wondering why. This all began about a month ago, and it’s a bit clearer now. With some breathing room made possible by the holiday, I want to explain how the FCC and online elections could be even [...]
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