Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act on Aug 31st, 2010
With the September Primary looming for the District of Columbia, they did the right thing yesterday, and hit the “reset button” on their project to pilot an alternative form of remote balloting exclusively for qualified overseas voters, as part of their MOVE Act compliance effort. The project has been given some breathing room and will [...]
Posted in Commentary, Internet Voting, MOVE Act, Risk on Aug 6th, 2010
[Note: This is a personal opinion piece and does not necessarily reflect the position of the Foundation or TrustTheVote Project.]
I should have seen this coming. What was I thinking or expecting?
I am reporting this evening from the NIST Workshop on UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems here in Washington D.C.. After a great set of meetings [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 6th, 2010
The TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation achieved another important milestone two weeks ago this morning, this time with the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, although not without some controversy. The short of it is, and most important to us, the Foundation has been given the opportunity to [...]
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 Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on May 3rd, 2010
I was very encouraged by recent election news from Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper: Reason for election machine glitch found, officials expect things to be OK for the primary. At first blush, it might seem like bad news:
All told, 89 of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections‘ 1,200 machines powered [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Apr 21st, 2010
I’ve got a word to say about “pilots”. It seems timely given what seems to be a serious uptick in discussion, legislation, and trials of “pilots” of new use of election technology. Actually, the words have already been said, and by people who know much more than I do about it, at the UOCAVA Summit [...]
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 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 [...]
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