Category: policy
Jun
27
Brennan Center releases threat analysis of common voting systems
elections, reform, news, problems, friends, research, policy, legalA task force of government, academic and non-profit experts convened
by the [Brennan Center for Justice] at the [NYU Law School] has today released the first
comprehensive threat analysis of three of the most popular types of
electronic voting syste… more »
Jun
22
PBS' California Connected on recent Diebold vulnerabilities
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, news, friends, research, policy[California Connected], a PBS news magazine with an emphasis on California issues, has recently published the last in a [special series](http://www.californiaconnected.org/newsroom/?cat=16) by Thomas Kelley on the recent security vulnerabilities discove… more »
Jun
16
EVT'06 Submission: "Transparency and Access to Source Code in E-Voting"
elections, reform, copyright, open source, secrecy, research, policy, legalI just submitted the camera-ready version of this paper to the [USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology 2006] (EVT'06) Workshop:
[USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology 2006]: http://www.usenix.org/events/evt06/
> ### Transparency and A… more »
Jun
02
An Academic Epiphany
system, elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, vendors, standards, problems, research, policySo, for two weeks, I have been struggling with a project of mine trying to get it into a shape where I could submit it to a hip-and-happening conference in the UK ([WOTE'06]). On Tuesday of this week, I resigned myself to look towards the long-term and… more »
May
31
Complications with Sequoia's VVPATs, tapes in CA counties
elections, vendors, news, privacy, problems, research, policy, legalA recent article from the North County Times here in California reports that at least three counties -- Riverside, Napa and San Bernardino -- do not plan on posting results reports in each polling place, contrary to California law.
Riverside has as… more »