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The D.C. Pilot Project: Facts vs. Fictions – From Our Viewpoint

Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 6th, 2010

The TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation achieved another important milestone two weeks ago this morning, this time with the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, although not without some controversy.  The short of it is, and most important to us, the Foundation has been given the opportunity to [...]

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Bruce Schneier on “Worst Case Thinking”

Posted in Risk on May 14th, 2010

Although he was talking in a very different context, I still think that Bruce Schneier’s perspectives on worst-case thinking have relevance to us:
“Worst-case thinking means generally bad decision making for several reasons. First, it’s only half of the cost-benefit equation. Every decision has costs and benefits, risks and rewards. By speculating about what can possibly [...]

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