Yesterday and today I am attending an Accessible Voting conference and we have had an interesting experience. We were broken into 4 groups, discussing different aspects of the voting process — from the pre-voting registration and voter information component through voting modes (remote and in-person) and ballot design. The fascinating part of the experience was [...]
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Some Lessons from Iowa
Several people have written recently about the Iowa caucus results, including our good friend Doug Chapin. I am going to pile on here but make a couple of broader points. First, the Iowa results and the subsequent recertification of the results make a point that Lonna Atkeson, Mike Alvarez, and I make in our upcoming [...]
Why I Love Cuyahoga County
In 2006, we did some work in Cuyahoga County for their primary election and, in reading through the polling place incident reports, we came across a claim of a poll worker arrested for being high on crack. Now, we get the poll worker biting the nose of a voter. http://www.the-news-leader.com/news/article/5124027
Voting on iPads
There was a NY Times story yesterday on how Oregon is considering using iPads to facilitate voting by individuals with disabilities. The idea is that the voter votes on the iPad — the tablet is typically taken to the voter with disabilities at their home, nursing home, etc. by election workers — and the ballot [...]
Voting on Your Phone?
When I saw the story “The Voting Booth in Your Pocket” (hat tip to Chapin for seeing it first) my first thought was that Mike and I wrote in our book Electronic Elections about a young woman in Los Angeles who discussed her frustration that she could bank online and do a dozen other things [...]
Norway E-Voting Presentation
You can watch the Norway evoting tabulation process at http://media01.smartcom.no/Microsite/dss_01.aspx?eventid=6316.
EAC on Emergency Preparedness
My former colleague — in another job life when we both lived in Georgia — Jeannie Layson from the EAC reminded me (via Doug Chapin) that the EAC blog as contingency planning information. http://www.eac.gov/blogs/contingency_planning_resources/
Earthquakes and Elections
Natural disasters always bring up my desire to point out that, had today been an election day, it is not clear that the places affected by today’s earthquake would have had a disaster plan for what to do with their election. Moreover, as a country, we have no recourse if, on the first Tuesday after [...]
A Legislator Who Gets Primary Elections
Today, in the Salt Lake Tribune there is a story that contains what one might consider a mild political gaffe, in the sense that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth about something that normally politicians don’t talk about. Representative John Dougall said that the political parties should pony up and pay for [...]
New Moritz Report
Moritz has released a revised version of From Registration to Recounts. Just in time for Summer vacation, I know it will be a great read!