Category: reform
Sep
20
If you are thinking of voting for Bush, please read the article linked above and excerpted below...
IN 2000, MANY OF US THOUGHT THAT THE OUTCOME of the election would determine the composition of the Supreme Court. It turned out to be the other way a… more »
Sep
19
I thought some of you might enjoy the cover illustration from the most recent Economist. more »
Sep
19
"Switching [voting systems or election technologies] now, approximately 40 days before the election, would probably introduce more security problems than it would avoid," said Aviel D. Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University w… more »
Sep
01
WPES: "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine"
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, standards, open source, secrecy, privacyIn case anyone out there is interested, here is the preprint version of our OVC-inspired privacy paper for the ACM's WPES 2004 upcoming in October: "Privacy Issues in an Electronic Voting Machine"
Here's the abstract:
ABSTRACT
In this paper, we d… more »
Aug
28
SB 1438 Passes California Legislature, Now onto Ahnold!
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standardsSB 1438, if signed by the terminator, will set into stone regulations that the California Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, has promulgated in the last year.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article 4 (com… more »