Tags: analysis
Nov
12
A Preliminary Analysis of OVL Voting Equipment Reports
system, elections, accessibility, reform, vendors, hacks, chilling effects, privacy, problems, research, policy, usability, legalWarning: This is a very long post.
Introduction
I've spent the past week looking over the voting equipment problems
captured by the Election Protection Coalition's 25 nationwide
call centers into the Our Vote Live database. There were
around 1… more »
Oct
18
Aug
19
Can Gymnastics Scoring Be Made More Fair Through Proper Mechanism Design?
elections, reform, wtf?, policy, exerciseI watched with great interest tonight when [US olympian Nastia Liukin tied China's He Kexin on the uneven bars][1]; both gymnasts had identical scores of 16.725. However, I was as surprised as everyone else to see Nastia ranked in 2nd place despite the… more »
Jul
22
Brennan Center Releases *Better Ballots*
elections, reform, news, problems, friends, research, policy, usability, legalThe [Brennan Center for Justice] at the New York University School of Law has released their ballot design report, [*Better Ballots*], authored by Larry Norden, David Kimball, Whitney Quesenbery and Margaret Chen. (I was part of the task force for this… more »
Apr
29
Architects and urban planners take note: we desperately need cellphonebooths.
?Huh??, you ask. Well, think about it. How long has it been since you?ve last used a pay phone in a phonebooth? Most payphones don?t even have booths these day… more »