Posted in Voting System Technology on Dec 1st, 2009
I need to correct two mis-impressions about the TrustTheVote Project that were presented to me by couple of election reform advocates.
One advocate is in favor of an election method using paper ballots that are all counted by hand, and all counted by machine — the combination being one where each of the two counts is [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Nov 23rd, 2009
I wrote before that this month’s re-count activity in Pennsylvania was notable because of the variety of voting methods used there, and hence the variety of recounting methods needed. In contrast to the Lackawanna county that I mentioned specifically, there are many counties in PA that use completely paperless DRE voting machines. In these cases, [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology on Nov 20th, 2009
Check out No Voting Machine Virus in NY-23 Election(from Bo Lipari – Essays and Images:
“Finally, the good news – because New York votes on paper, everybody’s vote was counted. When the scanner stopped working, the ballots were removed and counted, so no votes were lost. Paper ballots, a software independent record of the vote, proved [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Nov 20th, 2009
Election officials in Myrtle Beach, SC, noted the absence of about 260 votes in the recent election there. Fortunately, the votes were found, and the reason for the error discovered — and both before the election was certified. It’s a good thing that Myrtle Beach election officials were making their lists and checking them twice, [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 15th, 2009
Kudos to Brad Friedman for making a good call on a subtle point in his comment on my posting about Bo Lipari’s coverage of the NY State testing of voting systems. Brad objects to my statement that lever machines are not compliant with the Help Amercia Vote Act (HAVA).
And rightly so! The bad news about [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Oct 2nd, 2009
Possible futures of election technology … something you read about here a good deal. For some contrast, I want to offer some pointers to real people telling real stories about how real voting systems work today. And I don’t mean the horror stories about voting machine breakdowns and security problems. These stories are from people [...]
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 Voting System Technology on Sep 18th, 2009
In a couple of prior posts, I explained the “gold copy” or “trusted build” concept, and the role of EAC, NIST, and test labs. I can’t seem to completely bury this tale, because it raised another question about the processing of checking a voting system to see if it is legit: “Why is this checking [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Sep 2nd, 2009
Earlier this year, there was an important legal dispute in Germany, about whether electronic voting machines were legal for use in German government elections. The dispute was decided by the German Constitutional Court (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court), and the short answer was “no.” Now, we have available an official English translation of the [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Voting System Technology on Sep 1st, 2009
Last Friday was the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech in Washington, DC., where so many of us remember him saying “I have a dream.” The anniversary caught me by surprise when I noted it in the news, and tugged at me all day: what could Dr. King’s words have to say about [...]
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