Category: politics
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
15
Open Government Workshop at CITP
open source, secrecy, privacy, politics, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usability, legal, princetonHere at Princeton's CITP, we have a healthy interest in issues of open government and government transparency. With the release last week of the [Open Government Directive] by the Obama Administration, our normally gloomy winter may prove to be conside… more »
Feb
03
> **arrears**
> money that is owed and should have been paid earlier *: he was suing the lessee for the arrears of rent.*
I thought this was a typo in the [NYT Daschle] story...
[NYT Daschle]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/politics/04oba… more »
Feb
03
(Cross-posted at [Freedom to Tinker])
[Freedom to Tinker]: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/joehall/obamas-cto-two-positions
[Paul Blumenthal] over at the Sunlight Foundation Blog [points to] a new report from the Congressional Research Servi… more »
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 »