Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 28th, 2010
Open Source Technology Licensing…
We’ve been promising to respond to the chorus of concerns that we may drift from the standard GPL for our forthcoming elections and voting systems software platform and technology. Finally, we can begin talking about it (mainly because I found a slice of time to do so, and not because of any [...]
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 Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology on Jan 25th, 2010
Twelve days ago without a lot of fanfare and perhaps overshadowed by the MOVE Act enactment, the House took a small step forward in pushing a modest voter registration modernization initiative when Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who is the most senior Republican on the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections, introduced the Responsible Online Voter Empowerment Registration [...]
Posted in Ballot Design, Election Adminstration Technology on Jan 14th, 2010
I’d like to thank Eric Rescorla for making an excellent and pithy point about the purpose of publishing images of marked ballots. But first, thanks (again) to Mitch Trachtenberg of the Humboldt Transparency Project for publishing a hand-picked set of ballot images that provide a great example of the difficult borderline cases of interpreting hard-marked [...]
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 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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