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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I’ve been out on a temporary personal leave of absence due to a family crisis, but I want to weigh in on the progress of the D.C. distance balloting project where portions of the TrustTheVote Project elections technology framework are being deployed for the upcoming election in November. And it appears that an announcement was [...]
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With the September Primary looming for the District of Columbia, they did the right thing yesterday, and hit the “reset button” on their project to pilot an alternative form of remote balloting exclusively for qualified overseas voters, as part of their MOVE Act compliance effort. The project has been given some breathing room and will [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Open Source on Aug 17th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I presented at OSCON and during the conference had an opportunity to sit down with Mac Slocum, Managing Editor for the O’Reilly Radar. We had about a half an hour conversation, for which we covered ~20 minutes of it on camera. You can find it here if you want to [...]
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24 hours ago I, along with some others, was actually considering asking for a refund. We had come to the EAC, NIST, and FVAP co-hosted UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems 2 Day Workshop, expecting to feast on some fine discussions about the technical details and nuances of building remote voting systems for overseas voters that could [...]
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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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One of our Executive Directors, Gregory Miller, had the opportunity to attend the O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Conference this week in my home town of Portland, Oregon (his too, in fact). Summer is in full swing here, although no major heat waves so far; we’ve been enjoying cool morning marine layer followed by a pleasant [...]
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The TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation achieved another important milestone two weeks ago this morning, this time with the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, although not without some controversy. The short of it is, and most important to us, the Foundation has been given the opportunity to [...]
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Posted in Commentary, Open Source on May 29th, 2010
The principles of Open Source are spreading like a good contagion…
The Wall Street Journal carried an interesting article on Wednesday in its Technology Journal about GlaxoSmithKline, the drug maker, experimenting with applying “open source” principles in its pharmaceutical R&D efforts. The article is available to subscribers, possibly non-subscribers as well, but in any event, if [...]
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Posted in Voting System Technology on May 10th, 2010
I have to admit, I like paper ballots. But it wasn’t always that way. As a small child, I remember going into the voting booth with a parent, and watching them use those fine old lever machines. They were cool. The curtain made it seem like something both secret and important was happening. The little [...]
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