Posted in Voting System Technology on Jul 23rd, 2009
There’s a fascinating nugget inside of a fine legal story unfolding in Arizona. I know that not all our readers are thrilled by news of court cases related to election law and election technology, so I’ll summarize the legal story in brief, and then get to the nugget. The Arizona Court of Appeals has [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Jul 9th, 2009
Today’s posting landed in my lap in the form of a note from election tech colleague and Pitt researcher Collin Lynch, as part of a discussion about the role of the Federal government (specifically the Election Assistance Commission, or EAC) in “fostering innovation” in the market for voting systems, and ensuring a “healthy market”. Well, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on Mar 12th, 2009
I got a great and deceptively simple question recently: what guidelines should be used for testing of voting machines?
Posted in Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on Mar 9th, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me how often, and in what varied circumstances, I meet people who are not only quite clued in about election technology reform, but also surprising aware of some of the devils that lurk in the details. Today’s devil: "field validation" of voting devices, or: if I went to vote in a precinct, and someone told me I was about to vote on the wonderful new trustworthy voting system that I had heard about, how would I know that that was the device I was about to use?
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
There’s a pretty regular stream of news about activities in the office of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, de-certifying or re-certifying voting systems following the results of the state’s top-to-bottom review. Rather than making an up to the minute comment, I thought it would be useful to re-visit what I think is one of the more notable past scenes in the on-going drama.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2007
Rocket Science.
It doesn’t take rocket science to understand the essentials of systems
integrity. But, wait a minute! It does take rocket science to properly make
high integrity systems.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2007
Certification. Its hot news. Today its Colorado. Just check out how much coverage the Colorado’s State Secretary received in declaring three out of four of the state’s digital voting equipment vendors’ products unfit for service, or at least unreliable, and decertifying their use.
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