Thanks again to David Jefferson for his post yesterday on the lessons for Internet voting of the Google/China news (NYT: In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity). To answer some follow-up questions, I’ll explain a bit about the term vote servers that David referred to.
Let’s start with a little background on Internet voting. Many [...]

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[My thanks to to election and tech expert David Jefferson for contributing this excellent, pithy, and though-provoking reflection on the day's top tech/policy news story. -- EJS]

Google recently announced in an important change of policy that it will stop censoring search results for queries coming from China.  That is interesting in its own right, but [...]

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“Why, oh why?” you’re wondering (given our teaser title, that is).  Well, at first we were we also wondering why.   This all began about a month ago, and it’s a bit clearer now.  With some breathing room made possible by the holiday, I want to explain how the FCC and online elections could be even [...]

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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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Today’s news yielded another pair of oddly juxtaposed news items. Starting with news from the world’s largest democracy, India, where voting machine tampering is in the news, following a recent election in Orissa province.
Strange things have happened in many states including Orissa and a lot of complaints, allegations and cases have been lodged, observed the [...]

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Since I was complaining about the various confusions around the term “Internet Voting” I should also point readers to a fine summary of several such issues (including Internet distribution of blank ballots) by a group of panelists at the Computers, Freedom, Privacy conference. Kudos to panel chair Ed Felten for chairing the session and blogging [...]

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Well, I suppose that with all the marvelous activity at the National Civic Summit this week, and much of it being about elections, it is no surprise that the phrase “Internet Voting” is in the air again. So it seems like a good day to continue earlier threats on the topic, or more specifically, the [...]

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If you’re looking for an entertaining and vigorous discussion of Internet voting, don’t look here, but do look to William J. Kelleher, Ph.D’s paper “Internet Voting: the Great Security Scare”, or to the OpenGove web page that is the short form of his argument that “Internet Voting Is Coming” at IdeaScale:
Don’t be by the self-styled [...]

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No, I am not going to lecture on why Internet voting is bad for half a dozen different reasons. In fact, Internet voting is both a horribly loaded term, and also a general topic that is not germane to our current work at OSDV — which is technologically fixing the election technology mess that we are in, without also trying to change the way elections work.

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Oregon is one of several states that this month have legislative activity that’s starting to look at the phrase "Internet voting". Wired Oregon reports on Attempts to Bring Elections into Digital Age as a pair of bills, one for online voting, and one for online voter registration. But the reference to the recent report on the Pew Center on the States is a bit misleading.

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