Building the People’s Voting System

Author: Gregory Miller

Different Transparencies; Different Realities

While heads-down on year-end activities for the Foundation, I’ve not had much breathing room to think, reflect, and offer commentary here, but then I received an eMail this weekend, which caught my attention and somewhat caught me off guard.  It just goes to show what we often presume to be clear, isn’t always so. The … Continued

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Government’s Full Embrace of OSS – GOSCON ’10

I attended and participated in the Government Open Source Conference or GOSCON this week; the kid brother of O’Reilly’s OSCON, and little nephew of O’Reilly’s Gov2.0 Summit.  But don’t kid yourself: GOSCON is quickly coming of age and gaining an interesting crowd. Over the next couple of posts, I’ll reflect on [a] my Panel about … Continued

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D.C. Resets Timeline for Digital Vote By Mail Service

With the September Primary looming for the District of Columbia, they did the right thing yesterday, and hit the “reset button” on their project to pilot an alternative form of remote balloting exclusively for qualified overseas voters, as part of their MOVE Act compliance effort.  The project has been given some breathing room and will … Continued

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UOCAVA Remote Voting Workshop Makes a Strong Finish

24 hours ago I, along with some others, was actually considering asking for a refund.  We had come to the EAC, NIST, and FVAP co-hosted UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems 2 Day Workshop, expecting to feast on some fine discussions about the technical details and nuances of building remote voting systems for overseas voters that could … Continued

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Open Source Development Philosophy is Spreading

The principles of Open Source are spreading like a good contagion… The Wall Street Journal carried an interesting article on Wednesday in its Technology Journal about GlaxoSmithKline, the drug maker, experimenting with applying “open source” principles in its pharmaceutical R&D efforts.  The article is available to subscribers, possibly non-subscribers as well, but in any event, … Continued

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