Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Development methodology, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 7th, 2012
So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world. Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.” I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Intellectual Property Protection on Jul 4th, 2011
On this Independence Day I gave some reflection to the intentions of our founding fathers, and how that relates to our processes of elections and the innovations we should strive for to ensure accuracy, transparency, verification, and security. And as I thought about this more while gazing out at one of the world’s most precious [...]
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, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Jan 14th, 2011
As Greg said in his New Year’s posting, we’ve been planning a variety of activities for 2011, and reflecting on what we did in 2010, much that remains to do, and to do better. But at the risk of boring you with a laundry list, I wanted to provide some additional detail on some of [...]
Posted in Commentary, Voting System Technology on Nov 24th, 2010
More tabulator troubles! In addition to the continuing saga in New York with the tabulator troubles I wrote about earlier, now there is another tabulator-related situation in Colorado. The news report from Saguache County CO is about:
a Nov. 5 “retabulation” of votes cast in the Nov. 2 election Friday by Myers and staff, with [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Nov 22nd, 2010
In my last post, I recounted an incident from Erie County NY, but deferred to today an account of what the technology troubles were, that prevented the routine use of a Tabulator to create county-wide vote totals by combining count data from each of the opscan paper ballot counting devices. The details are worth considering [...]
Posted in Commentary on Oct 28th, 2010
Today I have a round-up of a few of the many recent news items about elections, technology, problems, and trust — from around the country. But first I want to put them in the context of what I think is a fundamental question in common to these and many other items of election tech news: [...]
Posted in Architecture, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, Internet Voting, Open Source, Risk, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Oct 22nd, 2010
Gentle Readers:
This is a long article/posting. Under any other circumstance it would be just too long.
There has been much written regarding the public evaluation and testing of the District of Columbia’s Overseas “Digital Vote-by-Mail” Service (the D.C.’s label). And there has been an equal amount of comment and speculation about technology supplied to the District [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act on Aug 31st, 2010
With the September Primary looming for the District of Columbia, they did the right thing yesterday, and hit the “reset button” on their project to pilot an alternative form of remote balloting exclusively for qualified overseas voters, as part of their MOVE Act compliance effort. The project has been given some breathing room and will [...]
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