Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 15th, 2009
Kudos to Brad Friedman for making a good call on a subtle point in his comment on my posting about Bo Lipari’s coverage of the NY State testing of voting systems. Brad objects to my statement that lever machines are not compliant with the Help Amercia Vote Act (HAVA).
And rightly so! The bad news about [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Aug 26th, 2009
I recently commented on specific connection, in the case of the TrustTheVote project, of open source methods and the issue of identifying a “gold build” of a certified voting system. As a reminder to more recent readers, most states have laws that require election officials to use only those specific voting system products that were [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Aug 20th, 2009
Some readers may sigh relief at the news that today’s post is the last (for a while at least!) in a series about the use of vote-count auditing methods to detect a situation in which an election result was garbled by the computers used to create them. Today, a little reality check on the use [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Aug 14th, 2009
Recently I’ve made a series of posts seemingly obsessed with chanting “audit, audit, …” mantra-like, to put readers into a trance. For those of you still awake enough to want to know how to find out whether election results were garbled by the computers used to create them, today we have some more answers. The [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Open Source on Aug 13th, 2009
In this week’s news we have a classic example of how transparency (a.k.a. “open government”) has enormous potential to defuse some thorny political issues that can rise to the highest heights of U.S. political news. The news is about Karl Rove’s involvement in Bush-administration actions to dismiss some U.S. Attorneys, including David Iglesias.
A New York [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Aug 12th, 2009
A good question re-surfaced for us as we participated in the National Civic Summit recently. The issue was and remains about identifying a “gold build,” that is, when there is a particular system/version that is certified for use as a voting system, how should election officials know that the systems that they deployed are systems [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Aug 11th, 2009
That’s a catchy blog headline, I hope, or at least an important issue. But I’ve fooled you because while answering the question, I am going to discuss “audit” again. I wrote earlier that one kind of audit is performed by election officials to detect errors in voting machines, or to put it another way, to [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Aug 6th, 2009
Pretty much any time the word “audit” gets used to describe a process of double-checking something, or getting a second pair eyes … the eyes glaze over. Despite Shakespeare’s adage, calling something “audit” is pretty much the kiss of death for interest value.
But what I want to do today is talk about the A-word in [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Jul 6th, 2009
I can’t resist calling your attention to some very thoughtful letters to the editor of the New York Times, on the topic of voting technology. For starters, the NYT had very straightforward editorial with trust as the keyword How to Trust Electronic Voting that started with the opinion that “Electronic voting machines that do not [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Jul 3rd, 2009
In yesterday’s and other postings, I praised election officials in Minnesota, and said that election officials nationwide can learn a lot from how Minnesota conducts elections, including but not limited to audit and recount. Today I’d like to point out some improvements to the MN recipe, starting from the root cause of the need for [...]
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