Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Voting System Technology on Feb 16th, 2010
Tomorrow night starting at 4:30PM the San Francisco Voting Systems Task Force is holding a Public Hearing to intake testimony and public comment on its draft prospective recommendations topics. [Disclosure: I am a member of this Task Force, appointed by the S.F. City & County Board of Supervisors.]
We encourage everyone who can make it to [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Feb 11th, 2010
Greetings-
So, I’ve taken a couple of days to decompress after a marathon of preparation for the Hearing this past Monday held by the CA Secretary of State. Unfortunately, Secretary Bowen could not attend and preside over this important hearing as she was a victim of the global weirding that is dumping snow in multiple feet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2010
Gregory Miller of the OSDV Foundation will be provide testimony during State of California Hearings on Future of Elections Systems next Monday, February 8th.
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen requested elections and voting systems experts from around the country to attend and testify, and answer questions about the current election administration landscape and how California [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Dec 24th, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked for public comment on the use of the Internet for election-related activities (among other digital democracy related matters). They recently published the responses, including those from OSDV. I’ll let Greg highlight the particularly public-policy-related questions and answers, but I wanted to highlight some aspects of our response that differ [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology on Dec 15th, 2009
I caught this post by Mark Drapeau of O’Reilly about where so-called Government 2.0 is headed in the next year or 2.0. It’s an interesting list, agree with it or not. It does seem to be the case that usually when folks are talking about Gov2.0 they don’t seem to be thinking about what can [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Sep 21st, 2009
This past week I was privileged to be invited to an engaging and very informative event hosted by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project on Caltech’s Pasadena campus. Turns out that L.A. County is in the early stages of figuring out “where to from here” for their next generation elections systems technology, and this event was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009
I resisted rushing to the keyboard to post something about Senator Edward Kennedy Tuesday evening, preferring to simply absorb the loss. Having been through a string of family losses myself years ago, I knew well what the remaining members of the Kennedy family surely must have felt.
As a child I recall my Father coming home [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on Feb 6th, 2009
Live from NASED, want to pass along a comment about the engineering realities of a Digital Public Works Project, in the midst of listening to Congressional staffers discuss what’s up on the Hill regarding election reform legislation. I just tweeted about the likelihood of making election day a federal holiday (its real and that should make our friends happy), but related comments on the panel sparks another observation.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
Greetings All-
I’m blogging live from the National Association of State Elections Directors Conference, Day-2. And you can follow us Twittering live from the conference too (@osdv). A quick comment here; perhaps more as the Day progresses.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2009
Wow! We learned a lot from visiting with the U.S. Congress this week, by attending and demonstrating to the Congressional Internet Caucus at the annual State of the ‘Net conference.
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