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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Greetings-
So, I’ve taken a couple of days to decompress after a marathon of preparation for the Hearing this past Monday held by the CA Secretary of State. Unfortunately, Secretary Bowen could not attend and preside over this important hearing as she was a victim of the global weirding that is dumping snow in multiple feet [...]
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I’d like to answer a fine question posed by Jered in a comment to a blog posted by my esteemed colleague Pito Salas. Jered allowed as how the basic idea of OSDV was a fine idea, but asked “What’s the plan to get OSDV-based systems deployed?”
A great question, but where I differ with Jered is [...]
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Posted in Commentary, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Dec 25th, 2009
“Why, oh why?” you’re wondering (given our teaser title, that is). Well, at first we were we also wondering why. This all began about a month ago, and it’s a bit clearer now. With some breathing room made possible by the holiday, I want to explain how the FCC and online elections could be even [...]
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked for public comment on the use of the Internet for election-related activities (among other digital democracy related matters). They recently published the responses, including those from OSDV. I’ll let Greg highlight the particularly public-policy-related questions and answers, but I wanted to highlight some aspects of our response that differ [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Dec 9th, 2009
Yes, it’s still a work in progress (I guess they remain that, forever.) But recently we’ve done quite a bit of neatening (gardening as they say among some wiki-geeks.) up of the TrustTheVote.org wiki. As we work, we will continue to add most of all we know and think as of a certain point in [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Oct 20th, 2009
Our apologies for a couple days of blog-silence … we’re gearing up for great event tomorrow in L.A., with the Hollywood Hill, Wired, RockTheVote, and four great speakers: Debra Bowen, Mitch Kapor, Heather Smith, and Dean Logan. More info at: http://hhill.org/osdv and more news to follow.
– EJS
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Posted in Announcements on Jul 28th, 2009
While in Minneapolis this month for the National Civic Summit, the TrustTheVote Project had a fabulous opportunity to reveal our new look. With the help of our friends at Dubberly Design Office in San Francisco, we advanced from being rather invisible to sporting our new red, white, and blue look with pride.
In addition to our [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Jul 21st, 2009
The OSDV team had a wonderful time in beautiful, but construction-heavy downtown Minneapolis, MN. The TrustTheVote Project was an active participant at the National Civic Summit. Spanning July 15th through the 17th, the two-day conference was free and open to the public.
The Summit asked participants, “How can we increase civic imagination and capacity to solve [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Jun 17th, 2009
Our thanks go to our patient readers of the Open Source Digital Voting blog, for a bit of radio silence while we’ve been standing up the TrustTheVote project, and infrastructure for it such as a blog, wiki, source code repository, and project tracker.
What is the TrustTheVote project? In brief, it is all the technology development [...]
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