Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on Mar 9th, 2011
Yesterday I wrote about the latest sign of the downward spiral of the broken market in which U.S. local election officials (LEOs) purchase product and support from vendors of proprietary voting system products, monolithic technology the result of years’ worth of accretion, and costing years and millions to test and certify for use — including [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on Mar 8th, 2011
Long-time readers will certainly recall our view that the market for U.S. voting systems is fundamentally broken. Recent news provides another illustration of the downward spiral: the likely de-certification of a widely used voting system product from the vendor that owns almost three quarters of the U.S. market.
The current stage of the story is [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act, Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on May 4th, 2010
Last Friday was a busy day for the Federal Elections Assistance Commission. They issued their Report to Congress on efforts to establish guidelines for remote voting systems. And they closed their comment period at 4:00pm for the public to submit feedback on their draft Pilot Program Testing Requirements.
This is being driven by the MOVE Act [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Apr 21st, 2010
I’ve got a word to say about “pilots”. It seems timely given what seems to be a serious uptick in discussion, legislation, and trials of “pilots” of new use of election technology. Actually, the words have already been said, and by people who know much more than I do about it, at the UOCAVA Summit [...]
Posted in Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 6th, 2010
Tim Bray is one of the main people behind XML so he has some serious cred in the world of building and deploying systems. So it with interest (and some palpable butterflies) that a recent missive of his: “Doing it Wrong”.
I don’t know how much of what he says is relevant to what we at [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Nov 11th, 2009
In another department of our megaplex one of my colleagues, Aleks Totic is working on ballot layout and design for the TrustTheVote technology suite. I came across this great blog post from the Brennan Center at NYU that describes a recent situation where it appears a simple bit of questionable (but valid) layout may have [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 16th, 2009
We now have a federally certified voting system product that has completed the required testing by a federally certified independent test lab. That’s a milestone in itself, as is the public disclosure of some of the results of testing process. Thanks to that disclosure, though, we now know that the test lab did practically zero [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 9th, 2009
Another in our series of real life stories … how it actually works for real election officials to test a new voting system that they might be adopting for use in the state.
The backplot is that New York State has been unwilling to give up its admittedly no-longer-legal* lever machines, until the the state Board [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, Voting System Technology on Mar 12th, 2009
I got a great and deceptively simple question recently: what guidelines should be used for testing of voting machines?
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