During my lunch talk at the Technology, Diversity, and Democracy conference Mike has previously reported on, I used the case of Palm Beach County, Florida to discuss how metrics to gauge the quality of the voting process sometimes are right under our noses, and under-utilized.
Here is a little more detail about PB County (and all [...]
Not exactly a blog, but the EAC has gotten a lot better about using technology to make their hearings and meetings public.
I went to their website today and found this set of notes from Commissioner Donetta Davidson and Matt Weil on early voting in Florida.
For those who don’t know already, the big innovation in Florida [...]
It’s always nice to see your book on the shelf in a bookstore – this time our local independent bookstore, Vromans.
Here’s the photo!
So Christmas has come early here in Pasadena, thanks to Denise Lamb from Santa Fe County (New Mexico). These are two of the voting Sequoia voting machines which Denise has passed our way … More on this when I get them unpacked, and up and running!
I’ve been meaning for some time to post a link to these reports produced by the University of Alaska-Anchorage: “State of Alaska Election Security Project Phase 1 Report;” and the “State of Alaska Election Security Project Phase 2 Report.” The Phase 1 report was published in late December 2007, and I was a peer reviewer [...]
The clouds have rolled in over Portland but the sessions continue at the 2007 Pacific NW Elections Conference.
The second day consists of breakout sessions that provide professional training (required?) for elections officials. I attended an interesting talk by Marcia Lausen of the Design for Democracy project (affilated with the American Institute of Graphic Artists).
Marcia [...]
The EAC released this statement last week, and here is one paragraph quoted from the statement:
Federally accredited test laboratories and certified voting machine systems play an important role in our nation’s elections and public confidence in those elections. In the interests of maintaining public trust in the integrity and fairness of the election [...]
There is a conference next week at Kent State University, “The Future of Election and Ethics Reform in the States.” Here’s the overview provided of the event:
The critical theme of this Symposium is that the 2008 Presidential Election will be crucial for American democracy, especially in light of the apparently related phenomena of decreasing [...]