Category: vendors
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 »
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 »
May
07
Sunlight on NASED ITA Reports
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, news, problems, research, policy, legal(Cross-posted at Freedom to Tinker.)
Short version: we now have [gobs of voting system ITA reports][0], publicly available and hosted by the NSF [ACCURATE e-voting center].
Long version: Before the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) took over t… 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
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 »