Archives for: October 2005
Oct
31
[ACCURATE] director [Avi Rubin]'s new book, [**Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting**][1], is available for pre-order at Amazon.com.
[ACCURATE]: http://accurate-voting.org/
[Avi Rubin]: http://www.cs.jh… more »
Oct
30
So, I've revitalized my [Shows page] which lists concerts and other musical engagements that I'm likely to be found at. It now has [a feed]. Technical details about the schema, xml and such below the fold.
[Shows page]: http://josephhall.org/shows.… more »
Oct
30
Yes. I have carved a pumpkin in the form of the [Danzig](http://www.danzig-verotik.com/) skull. more »
Oct
29
Check out [this Sony commercial](http://www.bravia-advert.com/includes/vid/bravia_60_sec_high.mov) where they unleashed a ton o' balls on an SF hill. Or as [Sean](http://www.cheesebikini.com/) put it:
> You think the last thing I'd ever do is po… more »
Oct
28
So, [Forbes][1] has a series of ridiculous pieces that make up it's cover story for the November 14 issue. The first ([*"Attack of the Blogs"*][2]) is a piece that generalizes about "attack blogs" using one lengthy example and a bunch of crap sprinkled… more »
Oct
25
Saw [We Are Wolves], [Erase Errata] (or what's left of it after their guitarist, Sarah, left the band) and [the Gossip] at the [Bottom of the Hill] on Saturday. It was a great show and We Are Wolves were especially neat... they're French... possibly Qu… more »
Oct
25
Electronic Voting in Brazil and Argentina
elections, news, politics, SIMS, berkeley, friends, research, policyIf you're interested in electronic voting issues in other countries, here are two great posts about Brazil and Argentina, respectively:
* [*"Electronic Voting in Brazil"*](http://www.freewisdom.org//archives/2005/10/24/electronic_voting_in_brazil) By… more »
Oct
22
More coverage on GAO report...
elections, reform, standards, news, open source, politics, problems, friends, research, policy[Kim] and I are quoted in a story today ([*"Report finds e-vote promise, problems"*][1]) about the [GAO report] in the [Oakland Tribune] by Ian Hoffman.
Man, my first quote makes me sound like a high school girl... the second one is pretty good, thou… more »
Oct
22
Care for your absentee ballot...
elections, accessibility, news, privacy, politics, berkeley, San Francisco, policy, educationAbsentee voters should consider *not* sending their ballots back via postal mail.
First, you'll save a stamp. Second, lots can happen -- spoiling, subversion, misplacement, etc. -- to your ballot between when you place it in the mail and when it a… more »
Oct
21
GAO e-voting report
system, elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, news, open source, problems, research, policy, usability, legalThe GAO has finally released it's report on e-voting:
Here's the first paragraph from the "What GAO found" section:
> While electronic voting systems hold promise for improving the election
process, numerous entities have raised concerns about t… more »
Oct
20
I have just been chosen as the graduate student representative to the Berkeley Information Technology Review Committee. (I've spent the past year on the [eBerkeley Steering Committee] and the previous two years on the [eBerkeley Educational Technology… more »
Oct
19
"History of Voting Systems in California" by Ed Arnold
elections, certification/testing, standards, copyright, research, policyCourtesy of [Kim Alexander] of the [CVF][cvf], I have obtained a copy of **[History of Voting Systems in California][h]** (3.4MB PDF) by Ed Arnold.
This document is from the California Secretary of State from the Bill Jones era -- around 1999 -- a… more »
Oct
13
So, I wanted a way to insert the string `PROMPT` in front of every line in a region of a text file. (This is for an [SQL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL) script for [Ray]'s [DB Mgmt. class].).
[Ray]: http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/
[DB Mgmt. cla… more »
Oct
11
What if the bush administrations horrible response to Katrina was actually a brilliant Rovian strategic move?
That is, non-profit and public interest organizations that are not in the business of relief are really really hurting right now. Donatio… more »
Oct
03
Documents surface in NC with Diebold and Gaston Co.
elections, vendors, hacks, wtf?, politics, problems, litigation, research, policy, legal[This document][1] (from Joyce McCloy [of NCVV][2]) is fascinating.
It is an exchange between an attorney at Diebold Election Systems,
Inc. (DESI) and the general counsel for the North Carolina State Board
of Elections. It mostly centers around a f… more »
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