Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Open Source on Mar 15th, 2011
You’ll often find the term “open source” here, used to describe either the source code for software, or the license that allows you take that source code and use it. But “open data” is just as important. A recent New York Times article read almost like I would have said it, starting with “It’s not [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on Mar 9th, 2011
Yesterday I wrote about the latest sign of the downward spiral of the broken market in which U.S. local election officials (LEOs) purchase product and support from vendors of proprietary voting system products, monolithic technology the result of years’ worth of accretion, and costing years and millions to test and certify for use — including [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on Mar 8th, 2011
Long-time readers will certainly recall our view that the market for U.S. voting systems is fundamentally broken. Recent news provides another illustration of the downward spiral: the likely de-certification of a widely used voting system product from the vendor that owns almost three quarters of the U.S. market.
The current stage of the story is [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2011
As I often do, I had a thoughtful Martin Luther King Day — as you can see from my still pondering a couple days later. But I think I now have something to share. Last time I wrote on MLK, I likened two unlikely things:
King’s demand for social justice and peace, using Isaiah’s prophetic [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
Some of you have heard the rumors and rumblings. Yes, an exciting new project in our open source elections technology framework is in the works. And yes, it is an important tool for the front lines of democracy: election polling places.
We’ll have a bunch more to officially say about our digital poll book project shortly.
But [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
As Greg said in his New Year’s posting, we’ve been planning a variety of activities for 2011, and reflecting on what we did in 2010, much that remains to do, and to do better. But at the risk of boring you with a laundry list, I wanted to provide some additional detail on some of [...]
Posted in Commentary on Dec 31st, 2010
Happy New Year Readers!
We’re so ready for 2011 (and probably the same with you). The work of the TrustTheVote Project in particular, and the Foundation in general grew steadily this year, as has awareness and knowledge of our efforts to create an open source elections technology framework. Our mission to make elections technology tantamount to [...]
Posted in Commentary on Nov 29th, 2010
While heads-down on year-end activities for the Foundation, I’ve not had much breathing room to think, reflect, and offer commentary here, but then I received an eMail this weekend, which caught my attention and somewhat caught me off guard. It just goes to show what we often presume to be clear, [...]
Posted in Commentary, Voting System Technology on Nov 24th, 2010
More tabulator troubles! In addition to the continuing saga in New York with the tabulator troubles I wrote about earlier, now there is another tabulator-related situation in Colorado. The news report from Saguache County CO is about:
a Nov. 5 “retabulation” of votes cast in the Nov. 2 election Friday by Myers and staff, with [...]
Posted in Commentary, Risk, Voting System Technology on Nov 19th, 2010
Behind the election news in Buffalo, NY, there is a cautionary tale about voting system complexity and confidence. The story is about a very close race for the state Senate’s 60th district. One news article includes a reference to “software problems with the new electronic voting machines in Erie County.”
The fundamental issue here is [...]
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