Posted in Election Information on Feb 15th, 2010
I came across an interesting article about voter registration: “The Alternative to Universal Voter Registration” where John N. Hall strongly supports Automatic Registration (AR) over Universal Voter Registration (UVR).
To people who are not election experts the distinction is a bit subtle. UVR has states proactively try to register everyone to vote, while AR has the [...]
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 Voting System Technology on Dec 11th, 2009
New York state recently certified two voting systems, and the end of the process is an interesting insight into current certification and standards — particularly the view of the dissent-voting participant, Bo Lipari, who explained his vote in his blog My Vote on NY Voting Machine Certification. It’s certainly worth reading Bo’s complete rationale, but [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Nov 17th, 2009
Following a previous post with before-and-after pictures of an ideal “re-modeling”of a ballot, I have a couple notes about how such remodeling is harder in practice; another ballot image to illustrate; and some good news about on-going TTV work on ballot image processing.
That ideal remodeling showed how to both fix one of class of usability [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 30th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 27th, 2009
We are thinking a lot about the overall architecture of our system. We are thinking and talking with election officials and their technology pals.
One question that is asked and we ask ourselves, is, “will your system work, right out of the box, for any jurisdiction?”
For example, a product that I work on, BlogBridge, is free [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Aug 20th, 2009
Some readers may sigh relief at the news that today’s post is the last (for a while at least!) in a series about the use of vote-count auditing methods to detect a situation in which an election result was garbled by the computers used to create them. Today, a little reality check on the use [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
There’s a pretty regular stream of news about activities in the office of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, de-certifying or re-certifying voting systems following the results of the state’s top-to-bottom review. Rather than making an up to the minute comment, I thought it would be useful to re-visit what I think is one of the more notable past scenes in the on-going drama.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2008
Many thanks to what Dave Barry would call “alert reader Brandon F.” for posing a question that comes up a lot concerning digital voting. To paraphrase slightly: why not specify and standardize on ballot paper, ballot layout, ballot marking locations in the layout, and scanning systems to automate counting? Why is everyone making this so complex?
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2007
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