A couple of days the New York Times Editorial page commented on Voting Technology in an editorial titled “The Voters Will Pay”. Some bits that interested me (but you should read the whole thing):
“[snip...] If the deal is allowed to go through, it would make it harder for jurisdictions to bargain effectively on price [...]

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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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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 [...]

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I came across an interesting article in Network World, “Open Source: How e-voting should be done”, by Paul Venezia of InfoWorld. It’s a good survey and review of some of the arguments in favor of Open Source in the management, conducting and tallying of elections, so I recommend reading it.
A couple of thoughts. Paul says:
“Another [...]

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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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Yes, it’s still a work in progress (I guess they remain that, forever.) But recently we’ve done quite a bit of neatening (gardening as they say among some wiki-geeks.) up of the TrustTheVote.org wiki. As we work, we will continue to add most of all we know and think as of a certain point in [...]

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As you may know, our approach to developing software is kind of agile development meets high assurance. What the heck? We are now engaged in prototyping and modeling, so the slider is to the agile development side. But the high assurance part will come. And when it comes, and when we want our code to [...]

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Ok, so rumors of my being radio silent for months due to my feeble attempts to restore my software development skills are greatly unbounded.  I’ve been crazy busy with outreach to States’ elections officials, as our design and specification work is driven by their domain expertise.   In the midst of that, I received a question/comment [...]

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I have a couple of updates on OSDV’s participation at next
week’s Personal Democracy Forum ( PdF2008 ). As mentioned earlier, Greg
Miller and John Sebes will be hosting a table in the Idea Market–now with the new
and improved title “How to Trust Voting Technology.” In addition, PdF organizers have

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The editors at the blog review site Blogged.com have given the OSDV blog a "very good" rating — based on frequency of updates, relevance of content, site design, and writing style. This is a very nice thing to see. But besides reviewing blogs, Blogged offers blog readers the opportunity to add their reviews. We would love to hear what our readers think.

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