Utah is creating a new cool check in process for voters. The State’s voter registration data base will be able to read the bar codes on a voter’s driver’s license. So when a voter goes to check in to vote, a poll worker will be able to scan the bar code on the [...]
The Economist has an article this week on why people rig elections. The answer is, because it works really well. As the summary report of the key findings notes:
Using dirty tactics during elections helps politicians that are already in office. If they use illegal practices to win elections, they can expect to be in office [...]
We had a great discussion with various people in Estonia about the country’s voter registration system. In Estonia, when you turn 18, you are automatically registered to vote at your address at that time. In addition, the person obtains a national identification card that has both a photo identification component and a digital [...]
I had an interesting conversation this morning with some private sector auditors here in Estonia. One interesting part of the discussion was a bit of a hypothetical–how would they audit election day voting? The thing that was interesting was that the first thing they were concerned about was not the vote counting but [...]
Here is the note Mike and I received from Kristjan:
The final number of e-votes is 104,415. I also received an approximate size of the electorate from the Electoral Commission. It slightly varies on a daily basis and it is larger than the electorate for national and EU elections – namely, in local elections also those [...]
As of October 12 (2.45pm Estonian time) 60,150 people have voted over the Internet in local elections and there are still two more days of Internet voting. In 2005, when Estonia first used Internet voting in local elections, 9,317 citizens voted over the Internet. For data on Internet voting in Estonia historically, see http://www.vvk.ee/index.php?id=11178. [...]
In our edited book Election Fraud there is a Chapter by Todd Donovan and Dan Smith about signature fraud and their analysis shows that a small but significant number of signatures in petition drives are fraudulent.
Also, and even more problematic though, is that signature checking is not easy but is often treated as a “duh” [...]
Paul and I are at the same election reform conference. It is a conference where we are discussing various reforms across the electoral landscape, from redistricting to voter registration to election audits.
The papers can be found online here.
Paul, Mike, and I all have papers on various topics here.
As many of you know, the Jeht Foundation is closing its doors in January. Here is a story in the NY Times that explains everything.
According to a recent report:
After pioneering online voting, the Baltic state of Estonia aims to be the first in the world to give voters the right to cast ballots using mobile telephones.
Parliament adopted a law Thursday allowing “m-voting” from 2011, six years after a landmark election in which Estonians were able to vote via the [...]