Building the People’s Voting System

Author: Gregory Miller

A New Chapter & Some Announcements

On this important day in history, and inspired by our new President’s call to action, I want to briefly update you, the real stakeholders in our democracy, on our progress.  I first want to thank all readers here — from the merely interested, to the ardent supporters of the Foundation — for your interest and passion in how we sustain one of the pillars of our democracy: the process of elections and the means by which we vote.

Today, at the start of a new chapter in our nation’s history, we have some thoughts and announcements.

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Re-inventing How America Votes — Now More Relevant Than Ever

In a previous post, I noted two things we’ve learned from this election. The first (and subject of that post) is to what extent the Internet has changed the way elections are conducted. The second, and the focus here, is to what extent the election taught us anything about the need to re-invent HOW America votes.

In the past two days, I’ve been asked several times whether the election, as it turned out, reduces the importance of our Project or not. Seriously.

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The Internet Changed Something About Elections, Just Not What You Think

In the aftermath of this historic election a couple of observations are worth making.

First, the need for election reform and how America votes persists. Had the election not gone down in the manner it did, and had Senator McCain not conceded when he did, make no mistake challenges would have ensued. But I’ll leave that for another post. For this one, let me turn attention to the second. So,

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A Proposed Voter Bill of Rights

On this Election Day I am back in the blog saddle here (more or less), and have been very busy in recent months working on development issues for the Foundation and relocating to our new Portland, OR offices from San Francisco, although I am down in the Silicon Valley twice monthly.

While I tweet myself to carpel tunnel death, monitoring several channels of streaming news data on voting, I want to pass along this interesting item on a proposed voter bill of rights.

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