Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform on Aug 7th, 2010
24 hours ago I, along with some others, was actually considering asking for a refund. We had come to the EAC, NIST, and FVAP co-hosted UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems 2 Day Workshop, expecting to feast on some fine discussions about the technical details and nuances of building remote voting systems for overseas voters that could [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 6th, 2010
The TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation achieved another important milestone two weeks ago this morning, this time with the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, although not without some controversy. The short of it is, and most important to us, the Foundation has been given the opportunity to [...]
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 Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Internet Voting on Apr 26th, 2010
There is some interesting recent “Internet Voting” news from North Carolina and Georgia. The contrast is in ideal example of different ways of incorporating the Internet into election technology, sometimes helpful, sometimes not.
From North Carolina, the news is on voting by eMail. This is explicitly permitted by NC law, and my NC colleagues tell me [...]
Posted in Announcements, Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Apr 16th, 2010
Happy Friday-
Apologies for the apparent radio-silence these past few weeks since returning from the Overseas Voting Summit in Munich. We’ve been very busy: handling 2 elections jurisdiction proposals and another large voter outreach group’s request to adopt portions of our open source elections technology framework, with lots of related work effort.
But today, at the end [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act on Mar 16th, 2010
I have arrived in Munich, reached my hotel and actually caught a nap. It was a sloppy slushy day here from what I can tell; about 30 degrees and some wet snow; but spring is around the corner. On the flight over the Pole last evening (I’m a horrible plane sleeper) I worked on final [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 28th, 2010
Open Source Technology Licensing…
We’ve been promising to respond to the chorus of concerns that we may drift from the standard GPL for our forthcoming elections and voting systems software platform and technology. Finally, we can begin talking about it (mainly because I found a slice of time to do so, and not because of any [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Feb 27th, 2010
A couple of days the New York Times Editorial page commented on Voting Technology in an editorial titled “The Voters Will Pay”. Some bits that interested me (but you should read the whole thing):
“[snip...] If the deal is allowed to go through, it would make it harder for jurisdictions to bargain effectively on price [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Voting System Technology on Feb 16th, 2010
Tomorrow night starting at 4:30PM the San Francisco Voting Systems Task Force is holding a Public Hearing to intake testimony and public comment on its draft prospective recommendations topics. [Disclosure: I am a member of this Task Force, appointed by the S.F. City & County Board of Supervisors.]
We encourage everyone who can make it to [...]
Posted in Announcements, Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Information, MOVE Act, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 12th, 2010
The TrustTheVote Project issued its first formal “Call For Participation” (”CFP”) to its Stakeholder Community last evening, and five elections jurisdiction have already indicated interest.
The CFP is inviting collaboration from elections jurisdictions all over the country who need to determine how to comply with the mandates of the new federal MOVE Act — particularly the [...]
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