The University of Connecticut’s Voting Technology Research Center has recently made available the results of their analysis of the State of Connecticut’s post-election audit of the November 2008 election. The report “Statistical Analysis of the Post Election Audit Data 2008 November Elections” is available here.
Here’s the report’s summary:
The University of Connecticut Voting [...]
My colleague, Peter Ordeshook, passed along to me this reference to a new research paper, “Democracy’s Achilles Heel or How to Win an Election without Really Trying”, by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler. Here is a summary of some of their results, from a briefing paper:
- Using dirty tactics during [...]
Here is the URL.
While things here in Southern California lack the political intensity of races in Virginia and New Jersey, we do have elections happening in Los Angeles County today. There was only one race on my ballot, and I’m going to drop my absentee ballot off later today at a polling place. I will be [...]
In an interesting round of developments, Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the Afghan runoff election scheduled for this coming weekend. Because of the lack of a challenger in the runoff election, the Afghan Independent Election Commission declared Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election. Here are details from the BBC. It’s [...]
VTP colleague Ron Rivest passed this press release along to me this morning. I look forward to hearing more about how things go when they use Scantegrity II in tomorrow’s election in Takoma Park:
Update: the MIT Technology Review had a lengthy story yesterday about the Scantegrity II system.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in a policy discussion on election auditing in Alexandria, Virginia with academics across many disciplines, election administrators, activists, and policy makers. We spent over a day and half talking about election auditing and where it needed to head next and what technological advances we’d need to [...]
There’s been a recent flurry of news regarding open source voting systems.
Last week, there was an event in LA where the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation discussed the release of some of their new open source voting system software. Here’s a story from Wired.
And here is a press release from Sequoia Voting Systems regarding [...]
Congress passed the MOVE Act yesterday, the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act.
Here is an interesting AP story, with photos,regarding the logistical difficulties the Afghans are encountering as they prepare the presidential runoff election.