Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Development methodology, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 7th, 2012
So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world. Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.” I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity [...]
Posted in Commentary on Dec 31st, 2011
Happy “Holidaze”
On the eve of 2012 we so need to check in here and let you know we’re still fighting the good fight and have been totally distracted by a bunch of activities. There is much to catch you up on and we’ll start doing that in the ensuing days, but for [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Intellectual Property Protection on Jul 4th, 2011
On this Independence Day I gave some reflection to the intentions of our founding fathers, and how that relates to our processes of elections and the innovations we should strive for to ensure accuracy, transparency, verification, and security. And as I thought about this more while gazing out at one of the world’s most precious [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on May 27th, 2011
For those of you who have been following the recount saga in Wisconsin, here is a bit of news, and a reflection on that.
So, the news from a couple of days ago (I’m just catching up) is that the process of re-counting is complete, but the resolution of that close election may [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
Some of you have heard the rumors and rumblings. Yes, an exciting new project in our open source elections technology framework is in the works. And yes, it is an important tool for the front lines of democracy: election polling places.
We’ll have a bunch more to officially say about our digital poll book project shortly.
But [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
As Greg said in his New Year’s posting, we’ve been planning a variety of activities for 2011, and reflecting on what we did in 2010, much that remains to do, and to do better. But at the risk of boring you with a laundry list, I wanted to provide some additional detail on some of [...]
Posted in Commentary on Dec 31st, 2010
Happy New Year Readers!
We’re so ready for 2011 (and probably the same with you). The work of the TrustTheVote Project in particular, and the Foundation in general grew steadily this year, as has awareness and knowledge of our efforts to create an open source elections technology framework. Our mission to make elections technology tantamount to [...]
Posted in Commentary on Nov 29th, 2010
While heads-down on year-end activities for the Foundation, I’ve not had much breathing room to think, reflect, and offer commentary here, but then I received an eMail this weekend, which caught my attention and somewhat caught me off guard. It just goes to show what we often presume to be clear, [...]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 29th, 2010
I attended and participated in the Government Open Source Conference or GOSCON this week; the kid brother of O’Reilly’s OSCON, and little nephew of O’Reilly’s Gov2.0 Summit. But don’t kid yourself: GOSCON is quickly coming of age and gaining an interesting crowd.
Over the next couple of posts, I’ll reflect on [a] my Panel about the [...]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 26th, 2010
We’ve been paying attention to early voting in this election cycle, because it is both an increasing trend, and also a form of voting that has significant impact on some our next-stage election technology efforts around polling-place — or early voting place — operations and technology.
As we were told by MN [...]
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