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 [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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