Our SoS responds, technologically, to criticism...

There's been a variety of flurried harumpfing today over allegations that the California Secretary of State's office "changed the rules" right before a meeting this Monday that will decide the fate of the (currently pending) state certification of the Diebold AccuVote-TSx electronic voting system. Someone even emailed me directly this story (the HTML markup is so bad here that it hurts one's eyes): "Will California send Diebold packing before Turkey Day?"

Hmmm. I happen to have known about the VSP meeting for a while (although technically it appears that the VSP has been disbanded in favor of the Office of Voting System Technology Assessment). Why? Because I had my man Carlo scrape the SoS's voting systems page to an RSS feed.

The SoS has responded to this criticism with a new mailing list that will inform people of future meetings: "Sign up here to receive automatic email notification of future certification hearings"

How did I know this? Well, it just came through on the feed!