Posted in Election Technology Reform on May 11th, 2010
Seems to me that I’ve seen more interesting videos, alarming articles, and research studies of problems with e-voting than with old-fashioned hand-count paper ballot elections. We hear about many ways and reasons to doubt election results that use machines in some part of the process, and about how “all manual count” elections are the “gold [...]
Posted in Architecture, Voting System Technology on Apr 30th, 2010
[Today's guest post is from election technology expert Doug Jones, who is now revealed as also being an encyclopedia of U.S. elections history. Doug's remarks below were in a discussion about how to effectively use post-election ballot-count audits as a means to gain trust in the correct operation of voting machines -- particularly timely, given [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Dec 24th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 30th, 2009
I thought I’d share a comment and response I got about trusting software to count votes. The comment was a very sensible one, though a mis-perception: that TTV is suggesting that software should be trust to count vote correctly. Not so! Here is the true but less simple story.
Many election officials want to conduct elections [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Sep 29th, 2009
In a recent post, I gave my view of a recent German High Court ruling that involved election technology. It seems I may have confused some readers by talking about what was, in some sense, the side effect. So, I should say a bit more about the main point.
Throwing out a recent election was the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Jul 6th, 2009
I can’t resist calling your attention to some very thoughtful letters to the editor of the New York Times, on the topic of voting technology. For starters, the NYT had very straightforward editorial with trust as the keyword How to Trust Electronic Voting that started with the opinion that “Electronic voting machines that do not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2008
As you might imagine, it is hard to choose from the many
events of Election Day 2008 to report and reflect on! But I thought that I’d
pick a handful of events that show just how vitally important it is the
election equipment be designed carefully – and the consequences of products
that aren’t, and vendors that don’t seem to care. I have to say, it’s
potentially dire, which is why I’ve picked as many as 3 events to support my
claims.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2008
Just back from an excellent (5th) edition of the Freedom to Connect Conference.
I want to tell you about another event next week our CTO will be speaking at descibed below, but first I owe a quick comment about F2C, as the Producer graciously gave us the podium to speak about the OSDV Project, which led to 3 hours of excellent conversation at an evening reception.
The OSDV Foundation is a
pending
501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefit corporation.
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