Category: research
Jun
03
The 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Workshop on Electronic Voting Technology is open for registration with the full technical program posted here:
It's been quite popular to the extent that the organizers and PC chairs this year, David Dill and Tadayoshi Ko… more »
May
28
Questions about the Voting Information Project
elections, standards, copyright, news, open source, friends, research, policy, usability, legalDoug Chapin and [Chris Backert] pointed me to the new [Voting Information Project] (Chris entitled his post, [*?Just About The Coolest Thing?*][1]). My initial reaction was much like the title of Chris? post: it did seem very cool. Not only tha… more »
May
14
Talk...
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, open source, secrecy, privacy, patents, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal, education, iSchoolI gave my dissertation talk today. It went surprisingly well. I felt my delivery was smooth---with nary an ?um?---and people seemed interested! I?ve learned that I have to practice talks 3-4 times before I?m ready to give them. (and the ?p… more »
May
07
Statistical Solutions to Elections Mysteries
elections, news, politics, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal[Chance], a popular Scientific American-like journal for statistics, has
published a cover piece by [Arlene Ash] (BU) and [John Lamperti]
(Dartmouth), ?Florida 2006: Can Statistics Tell Us Who Won
Congressional District-13??
The piece explor… more »
May
05
ACCURATE's Comments on the VVSG
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, standards, news, secrecy, patents, berkeley, friends, research, policy, legalAaron Burstein (UC Berkeley Law) and I just finished a large regulatory filing that will be of interest to any of you election technology geeks out there. Enjoy and be sure to let us know if you have feedback (there's another round of comments sometime… more »