Posted in Announcements, Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 23rd, 2010
One of our Executive Directors, Gregory Miller, had the opportunity to attend the O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Conference this week in my home town of Portland, Oregon (his too, in fact). Summer is in full swing here, although no major heat waves so far; we’ve been enjoying cool morning marine layer followed by a pleasant [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Risk on May 25th, 2010
[Today I want to share some eloquent writing about the right to a secret ballot. Though Doug Jones' October 2008 remarks are about an issue that arose a couple years ago, his words remain extremely relevant, especially in the context of the current discussion of e-mail voting. The discussion with Doug started with an issue [...]
Posted in Election Technology Reform on May 11th, 2010
Seems to me that I’ve seen more interesting videos, alarming articles, and research studies of problems with e-voting than with old-fashioned hand-count paper ballot elections. We hear about many ways and reasons to doubt election results that use machines in some part of the process, and about how “all manual count” elections are the “gold [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act, Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on May 4th, 2010
Last Friday was a busy day for the Federal Elections Assistance Commission. They issued their Report to Congress on efforts to establish guidelines for remote voting systems. And they closed their comment period at 4:00pm for the public to submit feedback on their draft Pilot Program Testing Requirements.
This is being driven by the MOVE Act [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Internet Voting on Apr 26th, 2010
There is some interesting recent “Internet Voting” news from North Carolina and Georgia. The contrast is in ideal example of different ways of incorporating the Internet into election technology, sometimes helpful, sometimes not.
From North Carolina, the news is on voting by eMail. This is explicitly permitted by NC law, and my NC colleagues tell me [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Information, Election Technology Reform on Mar 19th, 2010
Whew.
We’re through it, and for all the angst, sweat, and tears, I sense it went well. I want to thank the Panelists for being so good-natured (and well behaved as to the time limits in responses). We had some intense moments of heated disagreement and heated agreement. I’ll have some more to say later when [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act on Mar 16th, 2010
I have arrived in Munich, reached my hotel and actually caught a nap. It was a sloppy slushy day here from what I can tell; about 30 degrees and some wet snow; but spring is around the corner. On the flight over the Pole last evening (I’m a horrible plane sleeper) I worked on final [...]
Posted in Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act, Open Source on Mar 15th, 2010
I am on my way to Munich, as I post this, for the 2010 UOCAVA Summit. The OSDV Foundation is a co-host this year, and we’re coordinating the technology track of this 3-day gathering focused on the issues and opportunities for our overseas voters. This year’s event is arguably the most important UOCAVA (Uniformed and [...]
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 [...]
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