The recent New York Times editorial "Still Broken" is well worth the read, especially for its significant focus on dysfunction in the voter registration systems — something that often gets second billing to recollections of hanging chad and recent vote-dropping voting machine stories.

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Oregon is one of several states that this month have legislative activity that’s starting to look at the phrase "Internet voting". Wired Oregon reports on Attempts to Bring Elections into Digital Age as a pair of bills, one for online voting, and one for online voter registration. But the reference to the recent report on the Pew Center on the States is a bit misleading.

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I’ve noticed more coverage of election integrity issues relating to voter registration. It’s good to see some focus on VR-related problems, but I don’t see much about a deeper issue — transparency and publc accountability of the (im)proper use of voter registration systems and processes.

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It looks like there may some movement away from the current situation in which U.S. elections are increasingly outsourced and privatized.

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A recent New York Times editorial “The Right to Vote” explains how vote suppression is alive and well, with real
barriers created to prevent people from voting, sometimes unintentionally, and
sometime very much on partisan politics purpose. The most effective means are
attacks on voter’s eligibility, by abusing voter registration information. (That’s one reason for OSDV’s efforts to create technology

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I wanted to call attention to another fine article in the "Freedom to Tinker" blog, this one by Dan Wallach.

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