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 [...]
Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, Internet Voting, Open Source, Risk, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Oct 22nd, 2010
Gentle Readers:
This is a long article/posting. Under any other circumstance it would be just too long.
There has been much written regarding the public evaluation and testing of the District of Columbia’s Overseas “Digital Vote-by-Mail” Service (the D.C.’s label). And there has been an equal amount of comment and speculation about technology supplied to the District [...]
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 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 Risk on May 14th, 2010
Although he was talking in a very different context, I still think that Bruce Schneier’s perspectives on worst-case thinking have relevance to us:
“Worst-case thinking means generally bad decision making for several reasons. First, it’s only half of the cost-benefit equation. Every decision has costs and benefits, risks and rewards. By speculating about what can possibly [...]
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