Category: reform
Dec
17
Chris Edley on Election Rights and Potholes
system, elections, accessibility, reform, news, privacy, politics, berkeley, problems, litigation, friends, research, policy, legal, podcasts, educationThe high-point of last weeks' Pew/JEHT conference, "Voting in America", was seeing the Dean of Berkeley Law, Chris Edley, give a keynote during dinner on Tuesday. With his permission, I am making available audio from his address. Find it here (30 minu… more »
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
11
California Issues Emergency Election Audit Regulations
elections, reform, standards, litigation, friends, research, policy, legal*(cross-posted to [Freedom to Tinker](http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/node/6246/edit))*
The Office of the California Secretary of State has issued a set of proposed emergency regulations for post-election manual tallying of paper election records.… more »
Oct
03
Dissertation Now Available
system, elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, copyright, open source, secrecy, privacy, berkeley, litigation, research, policy, usability, legal, education, iSchoolYesterday, I filed my dissertation and got [my sucker] (Berkeley gives you a tasty See's Cafe Latte hard candy sucker when you graduate).
My dissertation is about a very poignant topic: policy mechanisms for making electronic voting systems more tran… more »