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 [...]
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[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 [...]
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We’ve been answering lots of questions about the OSDV Foundation’s role in the District of Columbia’s Pilot “digital vote-by-mail” project, including a recent post with a detailed account of the history leading up to the Pilot. But there is one Q&A in particular that I want to share with a broader audience. It’s a two-part [...]
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Kudos to the Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro for his article “D.C. launches test of open-source online voting” — fine coverage, but with a title that I disagree with in terminology only. I don’t view the D.C. pilot as “online voting” but rather as a test of an additional form of digital transport for return of [...]
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(Part 2 of 2: What’s My Ballot?)
Today, I’m continuing on from a recent post, which compared my in-person voting experience with one method of Internet-based voting: return of marked ballots by fax or email. Next up is a similar comparison with another form of Internet-based voting: Internet voting from home using a PC’s Web browser.
Let’s [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Internet Voting on Apr 28th, 2010
Some of the feedback on my internet/email voting post can be summed up this way:
Is email voting really that bad? Sure, emailed ballots can be snooped, tampered, or diverted en route, but so can paper vote-by-mail ballots – yet we still use them. So what, specifically, is so much worse about emailed ballots?
First off, I [...]
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Following up on John’s discussion of “Internet Voting” in North Carolina… Let me pick up the thread from the perspective of Vote By Mail as a point of comparison.
I think it’s an interesting comparison because it’s worth asking whether using the Internet makes voting immediately riskier than the model we all know (and some love) [...]
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There is some interesting recent “Internet Voting” news from North Carolina and Georgia. The contrast is in ideal example of different ways of incorporating the Internet into election technology, sometimes helpful, sometimes not.
From North Carolina, the news is on voting by eMail. This is explicitly permitted by NC law, and my NC colleagues tell me [...]
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