Category: policy
Feb
03
##### This is cross-posted at the [Technology | Academics | Policy](http://www.techpolicy.com/Blog/February-2010/--Privacy--It-Used-to-Be-Nobody-s-Business!.aspx) blog.
*This post is intended for lay audiences; I can only hope I did a decent job.*… more »
Jan
04
One of the godmothers of electronic voting is Rebecca Mercuri. Her PhD dissertation introduced the concept of the voter-verified paper audit trail. I've wanted to read a copy of this thesis for a while and recently had a renewed interest in it. I pai… 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 »
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 »
Nov
16
CA to Provide Precinct-Level Data
elections, standards, open source, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usabilityToday, UC Berkeley Professors Philip Stark, Jasjeet Sekhon and Henry Brady, along with me, sent the California Secretary of State a brief comment about her [effort to provide precinct-level elections data](http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2009-specia… more »