Building the People’s Voting System

Author: John Sebes

NBC News, Voting Machines, and a Grandmother’s PC

  I’d like to explain more precisely what I meant by “your grandmother’s PC” in the NBC TV Bay Area’s report on election technology. Several people thought I was referring to voting machines as easily hacked by anyone with physical access, because despite appearances: Voting machines are like regular old PCs inside, and like any … Continued

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TrustTheVote on GitHub — New Beginnings

    As we start a new phase of election technology development at the TrustTheVote Project, it’s time to correct an oversight about another new beginning — the work that we started last year to move our source code within GitHub. Here’s the where, what, and why. Where The new home of the TrustTheVote Project on … Continued

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Future of Voting Systems: Future Requirements (Part 2)

At the recent NIST/EACG Future of Voting Systems Workshop II, EAC folks asked participants for input on possible future requirements for future voting systems. I subsequently blogged here some suggestions based on the experience of the TrustTheVote Project. Today, I’ll continue that theme, but first briefly revisit my prior remarks.

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State Certification of Future Voting Systems — 3 Points of Departure

In advance of this week’s EVN Conference, we’ve been talking frequently with colleagues at several election oriented groups about the way forward from the current voting system certification regime. One of the topics for the EVN conference is a shared goal for many of us: how to move toward a near future certification regime that can much better serve state election officials in states that want to have more control, customization, and tailoring of the certification process, to better serve the needs of their local election officials.

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Election Standards, Day 2

The second day of the annual meeting of the Voting System Standards Committee was Friday Feb. 6. I’m concluding my reporting on the meeting with a round up of existing and proposed standards activity that we discussed on day 2. Each item below is about an existing working group, a group in formation, or proposed … Continued

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Election Standards – Part Two

Last time I reported on the first segment of the annual meeting of the Voting Systems Standards Group (VSSC) of the IEEE. Most of that segment was about the soon-to-be-standard for election definition and election results (called VSSC.2). I recapped some of the benefits of data standards, using that as an example.  Much of the … Continued

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Election Standards – What’s New

The annual meeting of U.S. elections standards board is this week. In addition to standards board members, several observers are here, and will be reporting. The next few blogs are solely my views (John Sebes), but I’ll do my best to write what I think is a consensus. However, today I’ll start with a closely related … Continued

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