John Sebes, Author at TrustTheVote

Election Results Reporting – Assumptions About Software

John Sebes

November 2, 2013

Today I’m continuing with the second of a 3-part series about what we at the TrustTheVote Project are hoping to prove in our Election Night Reporting System project. As I wrote earlier, we have assumptions in three areas, one of which is software. I’ll try to put into a nutshell a question that we’re working on … Continued

Election Results Reporting – Assumptions about Data

John Sebes

October 24, 2013

In a previous post I said that our ENRS project is basically an effort to investigate a set of assumptions about how the reporting of election results can be transformed with innovations right at the source — in the hands of the local election officials who manage the elections that create the data. One of … Continued

Election Results Reload: the Time is Right

John Sebes

October 18, 2013

In my last post, I said that the time is right for breaking the logjam in election results reporting, enabling a big reload on technology for reporting, and big increase in public transparency. Now, let me explain why, starting with the biggest of several reasons. Elections data standards are needed to define common data formats … Continued

Towards Standardized Election Results Data Reporting

John Sebes

October 11, 2013

Now that we are a ways into our “Election Night Reporting System” project, we want to start sharing some of what we are learning. We had talked about a dedicated Wiki or some such, but our time was better spent digging into the assignment graciously supported by the Knight Foundation Prototype Fund. Perhaps the best … Continued

A New Opening for “Open”

John Sebes

August 6, 2013

I’m still feeling a bit stunned by recent events: the IRS has finally put us at the starting point that we had reasonably hoped to be at about 5 years ago. Since then, election tech dysfunction hasn’t gone away; U.S. election officials have less funding than ever to run elections; there are more requirements than … Continued

Arizona Capital Times Editorial on Election Data – Right?

John Sebes

March 6, 2013

I can’t recall a newspaper editorial on election stuff that I’ve agreed more with than the Arizona Capital Times “Improved election data would mean a better informed electorate“ …though with a title like you can imagine I’d be a fan. But before I pick at just one part they got wrong, let me pick 3 … Continued

Open Source and Cloud Computing for Government: One Good Fit

John Sebes

March 5, 2013

OSDV’s own Anne O’Flaherty presented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week to a workshop on common data formats for election data interchange. As readers will know, we did a pile of work with Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) this past year. Anne led that project, and her presentation was … Continued

“Definitive” Word on Internet Voting? Look to NIST

John Sebes

March 4, 2013

As frequent readers will note, Internet voting as a discussion topic is one we increasingly tire of — there is so much else to do! that unlike Internet Voting, can actually be done today! Let’s talk instead about what tech innovations can do speed up the long lines at polling places, for example. But nevertheless, … Continued

Poster and Slides from OSDV at NIST Workshop on Common Data Format Standards

John Sebes

February 26, 2013

Many thanks to the engaged audience for OSDVer Anne O’Flaherty’s presentation yesterday at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which hosted a workshop on Common Data Formats (CDFs) and standards for data interchange of election data. We had plenty to say, based on our 2012 work with Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE), because … Continued

Exactly Who is Delivering Postal Ballots? and Do We Care?

John Sebes

February 7, 2013

An esteemed colleague noted the news of the USPS stopping weekend delivery, as part of a trend of slow demise of the USPS, and asked: will we get to the point where vote-by-mail is vote-by-Fedex? And would that be bad, having a for-profit entity acting as the custodian for a large chunk of the ballots … Continued

Building the People’s Voting System

Author: John Sebes

Election Results Reporting – Assumptions About Software

John Sebes

Election Results Reporting – Assumptions about Data

John Sebes

Election Results Reload: the Time is Right

John Sebes

Towards Standardized Election Results Data Reporting

John Sebes

A New Opening for “Open”

John Sebes

Arizona Capital Times Editorial on Election Data – Right?

John Sebes

“Definitive” Word on Internet Voting? Look to NIST

John Sebes

Poster and Slides from OSDV at NIST Workshop on Common Data Format Standards

John Sebes

Exactly Who is Delivering Postal Ballots? and Do We Care?

John Sebes

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