Category: reform
Oct
26
MN Post Election Audit Summit
elections, certification/testing, reform, secrecy, privacy, politics, berkeley, friends, research, policy, legal##### I've reopened comments for a few days on this post.
I'm here at the [Post Election Audit Summit] in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are about 100 election officials, technical types and advocates in the same room talking about the very difficul… more »
Sep
06
HR811 Does Not Require Source Code Disclosure
elections, reform, standards, copyright, news, secrecy, politics, problems, friends, research, policy, legalMany people seem to erroneously think that [HR811] requires the disclosure of voting system source code. For example, in a recent press alert, Doug Lewis of [The Election Center] says:
> The provision that covers source code is giving a blueprint fo… more »
Sep
06
A Window into the Hart Document Review of the California TTBR
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, copyright, hacks, news, secrecy, privacy, berkeley, research, policy, usability, legalWell, it has been more than 45 days since we submitted our document review report on the Hart System 6.2.1 to the California Secretary of State under the Top-To-Bottom Review (TTBR). According to [our contract] (see page 10):
> No Principal Investig… more »
Aug
29
Tova Freed from Gag
elections, reform, news, secrecy, chilling effects, friends, research, policy, legal[Tova Wang], released from her confidentiality obligations under a contract for the Election Assitance Comission, has written a very interesting op-ed in the Washington Post describing the twists and turns of the whole affair ([*"A Rigged Report on U.S.… more »
Aug
02
"Post Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections"
elections, reform, standards, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legalToday, we released our [new report (2.6MB PDF)](http://brennancenter.org/dynamic/subpages/download_file_50089.pdf) on post-election audits of paper records. The authors include Larry Norden, Aaron Burstein, Margaret Chen and myself.
It's a wonderful… more »
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