Posted in Voter registration on May 16th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Voter registration on May 10th, 2012
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 [...]
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 Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology on Apr 8th, 2011
At the end of our last visit to the fictional Town of Bedrock, we left Fred as he applied to run for mayor. Now we’ll continue the story, but with a focus on Bedrock itself, in order to continue building up a detailed, yet simplified, account of actual U.S. election practice.
The focus is on Bedrock [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on Mar 21st, 2011
Today, we’ll continue our illustrative story of elections — and as in the first installment of the story, we’ll keep it simple with the setting in the Town of Bedrock. As we tune in, we find Fred Flintstone in downtown Bedrock at the offices of Cobblestone County’s Bedrock Board of Elections (BBoE). He’s checking up [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Mar 2nd, 2011
As I said in my recent MLK posting, I’m starting a series of blogs that should provide a concrete example of election management, at a small scale and (I hope) with some interest value. But before I tell a story of election management, we need to first have a story of an election, and this [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2011
Putting an open source application into service – or “deployment” – can be different from deploying proprietary software. What works, and what doesn’t? That’s a question that’s come up several times in the few weeks, as the TTV team has been working hard on several proposals for new projects in 2011. Based on our experiences [...]
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 Election Adminstration Technology, Election Information on Nov 15th, 2010
NYT reported on the continuing counting in some New York elections, with the control of the NY state house (and hence redistricting) hanging in the balance. The article is mostly apt, but the reference to “hanging chad” is not quite right. FL 2000’s hanging chad drama was mainly about the ridiculous extreme that FL went [...]
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