Categories: elections, accessibility, certification/testing, litigation, news, problems, reform, standards, vendors
Sep
06
*(This post was [originally published][01] on [VoxPopuLII][02], a publication of the [Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School][03].)*
[01]: http://blog.law.cornell.edu/voxpop/2010/09/01/electronic-voting-and-direct-democracy/
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Jun
08
Debra Bowen's 2007 TTBR Announcement
system, elections, certification/testing, accessibility, vendors, hacks, open source, secrecy, privacy, politics, problems, friends, research, policy, usability, legalIn 2007, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen commissioned a review of California's voting systems by a team of technical experts, of which I was one.
She released many of the technical reports on the night of 27 July 2007 and then spent a week… more »
Feb
13
[Nathan Yau] at [FlowingData] has a very cool [tutorial] that shows how to make a [choropleth] graph of county-level data in the U.S. The end result looks something like this:
Cool!
One problem with the tutorial as written is that it doesn't… more »
Jan
04
One of the godmothers of electronic voting is Rebecca Mercuri. Her PhD dissertation introduced the concept of the voter-verified paper audit trail. I've wanted to read a copy of this thesis for a while and recently had a renewed interest in it. I pai… more »
Dec
01
Tinkering with Disclosed Source Voting Systems
system, elections, vendors, copyright, hacks, open source, research, policy, legal, development*(cross-posted at [Freedom To Tinker](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/joehall/tinkering-disclosed-source-voting-systems))*
As [Ed pointed out in October][1], Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc. ("Sequoia") announced then that it intended to publish th… more »
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