Global Voting System. Ambitious. Provocative. And academic until systemic issues of integrity and trustworthiness in digital voting are properly addressed.
Wishing. For you and yours to have a
peaceful holiday – regardless of your purpose of celebrating some rest and
recuperation as the year end nears – that would be my wish today on this Christian
holiday.
Innovation. Sometimes innovation lies in
process.And that’s what I want to
mention today.And I promise, at the
risk of starting to flow like the Hon. Senator Joe Biden, it’ll be simply a
mention.
Balance. The philosophy of yin-yang teaches among other
things that a struggle of energies provides balance and can even serve as a
flywheel of momentum.In a recent post, I
attempted to present some unique giving
propositions for the OSDV Foundation which were focused – in part – on the
Rocket Science. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand the essentials of systems
integrity.But, wait a minute! It doestake rocket science to properly make
high integrity systems.
Certification. Its hot news. Today its Colorado. Just check out how much coverage the Colorado’s State Secretary received in declaring three out of four of the state’s digital voting equipment vendors’ products unfit for service, or at least unreliable, and decertifying their use.
While we’re
trained on how to secure the vote, its worth remembering that security of all
aspects of a digital democracy is imperative. Here is a briefing from eWeek (a
popular corporate IT trade pub) on the likely top security threats for 2008.
I’ve
written in other postingshow the OSDV Foundation’s focus
makes it distinctive – a focus not primarily on talking, but on making
breakthrough digital voting technology that people can see, touch, and
try.That focus is also the basis of the
