Archives for: November 2006
Nov
29
Federal election laws like HAVA, limit their mandates to apply to federal elections?congressional and presidential. It may seem silly to some that Congress can only pass election laws that apply to federal elections, unlike in other areas of law wher… more »
Nov
28
Possible HAVA Violation in Georgia's Provisional Balloting
elections, news, chilling effects, problems, policy, legalYesterday, I read [Ron Rivest]'s write-up of his elections observation experience in Georgia this past November ([*"Trip Report: Election Day 2006: Visit to Atlanta Georgia on 11/7/2006 for election observing"* (PDF)](http://vote.caltech.edu/Elections20… more »
Nov
26
In order to make sense of all the post-election auditing proposals currently out there, I've created a bibliography of all the post-election audit work that I know of. Please let me know if I've left anything out; my intention is to include *everything… more »
Nov
22
Diebold whistleblower pleads guilty and pays $10K
elections, vendors, copyright, news, secrecy, chilling effects, litigation, legalTruly sad. I wish he had had the right criminal defense to wash his hands of this. Whistleblowing has to be done right. Jones Day is a bunch of really scummy lawyers.
### [E-voting `hero' pleads guilty to computer crime in Diebold case][1]
> By… more »
Nov
18
This may knock me down a few notches in some of your eyes, but I've always liked Marueen Dowd. Her most recent column about Nancy Pelosi is a home-run. This whole week I've been consistently unimpressed with the unleadership skill, strained logic and… more »
Nov
17
An Iranian-American UCLA Student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was [tased](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroshock_gun) after being unable to produce ID and reacting (irrationally) to being touched by cops at UCLA's Powell Library. Declan has a great summ… more »
Nov
16
As part of my dissertation research and the research agenda of our [NSF ACCURATE][1] center, a number of us have been working with two California jurisdictions to design the procedures for their post-election manual audit. This audit, required under Ca… more »
Nov
14
I caught this funny mistranslation of Bush by the closed captioning... he said "attack" and the CC thought it was "eye tack". I'm not even sure I know what "eye tack" is...
> "The election has changed many things in Washington but it has not cha… more »
Nov
10
So, as a poll worker, we were instructed to tell anyone in the polling place that wearing pins or t-shirts, etc. that represented a candidate or measure on the ballot was electioneering under [California Law](http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?se… more »
Nov
08
I have always wanted to volunteer for an election and see what it's like to be on the ground, especially since election policy is a key part of my PhD thesis. [Avi Rubin], the director of our [ACCURATE] grant, recently [volunteered as a poll worker] in… more »
Nov
06
SacBee Op-Ed: "Counting on security"
elections, certification/testing, standards, news, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal[Deirdre Mulligan] (PI on NSF [ACCURATE] grant), Aaron Burstein, David Snyder and I wrote this piece for Sunday's Sacramento Bee. -Joe
[Deirdre Mulligan]: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=1018
[ACCURATE]: http://… more »
Nov
03
>"I consider MS Word to be a form of denial-of-service attack" --Aaron Burstein more »
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