Category: usability
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 »
May
24
Occasionally, my MacBook Pro will get "stuck on mute"1 if I pull the headphones out too quickly. When you try to increase or decrease the volume, you see this:
When this happens a red LED shines out of the headphone jack:
With some cleve… 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 »
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 »
Sep
28
ACCURATE comments on VVSG v1.1
elections, certification/testing, reform, standards, berkeley, friends, research, policy, usability*(Cross-posted on the ACCURATE blog: [ACCURATE Comment on VVSG v1.1](http://accurate-voting.org/2009/09/28/accurate-comment-on-vvsg-v1-1/))*
A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) submitted public comme… more »
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