Building the People’s Voting System

Author: Gregory Miller

Do Trade Secrets Hinder Verifiable Elections? (Duh)

Slate Magazine posted an article this week, which in sum and substance suggests that trade secret law makes it impossible to independently verify that voting machines are working correctly.  In a short, we say, “Really, and is this a recent revelation?” Of course, those who have followed the TrustTheVote Project know that we’ve been suggesting … Continued

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Movement to Bring Open Source to Government Being Reorganized

Greetings- Just a quick post to suggest an interesting report out this afternoon on the TechPresident blog.  The move to consolidate the efforts of Civic Commons (home of Open311.org) and Code For America (CfA), notwithstanding the likely trigger being Civic Common’s leader, Nick Grossman moving on, actually makes sense to us.  CfA’s  Jennifer Pahlka‘s write … Continued

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At the Risk of Running off the Rails

So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world.  Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.”  I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity … Continued

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Temporarily Missing, But Still in Action

Happy “Holidaze” On the eve of 2012 we so need to check in here and let you know we’re still fighting the good fight and have been totally distracted by a bunch of activities.  There is much to catch you up on and we’ll start doing that in the ensuing days,  but for now we … Continued

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Election Transparency Must be Apolitical

For those of you who have been following the recount saga in Wisconsin, here is a bit of news, and a reflection on that. So, the news from a couple of days ago (I’m just catching up) is that the process of re-counting is complete, but the resolution of that close election may not be.  … Continued

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Help Wanted; The Search is On

Greetings All– Sorry we’ve been away from the podium here for a couple of weeks.  We’re heads-down on some very exciting projects.  But not nearly as exciting as what I have to announce today.  Let’s get right to it. The time has come.  Some might argue it’s overdue.  Growth of the activities and work here, … Continued

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Welcome 2011; The Movement Continues…

Happy New Year Readers! We’re so ready for 2011 (and probably the same with you).  The work of the TrustTheVote Project in particular, and the Foundation in general grew steadily this year, as has awareness and knowledge of our efforts to create an open source elections technology framework.  Our mission to make elections technology tantamount … Continued

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