Building the People’s Voting System

Author: John Sebes

Jeffrey Valjean Cook, 1956 – 2013

We had some very sad news this week in the TrustTheVote Project — the sudden and unexpected death of a key contributor: Jeffrey Valjean Cook. We all feel that among the ways to mark his passing, it’s important to recall the many contributions he made. But for myself, I have to do so in a … Continued

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“Why is There a Voting Tech Logjam in Washington

“Why is There a Voting Tech Logjam?” — that’s a good question! A full answer has several aspects, but one of them is the acitivty (or in-activity) at the Federal level, that leads to very limited options in election tech. For a nice pithy explanation of that aspect, check out the current issue of the … Continued

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Sequel to A.G. Holder “Fix That” — Can Do!

In my last post, I said that we might be onto something, an idea for many of the benefits of universal automatic permanent voter registration, without the need for Federal-plus-50-states overhaul of policy, election law, and election technology that would be required for actual UAP VR. Here is a sketch of what that might be. … Continued

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A.G. Holder Wants to “Fix That” for Voter Registration

In a public speech yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called for universal, automatic voter registration, and stated that current technology can accomplish that, despite the fact that the current system is complex and error-prone. As Reuters reported on Holder’s remarks: By coordinating existing databases, the government could register “every eligible voter in America” and … Continued

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Vote Adding Machine Problems in FL — We Have to Fix That!

Despite today’s blog docket being for RockTheVote, I just can’t resist pointing out a recurring type of technology-triggered election dysfunction that is happening again, and is 100% preventable using election technology that we have already developed. Here’s the scoop: in St. Lucie County, Florida, the LEOs are having trouble coming up with a county wide … Continued

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TrustTheVote on HuffPost

We’ll be live on HuffPost online today at 8pm eastern: @HuffPostLive http://huff.lv/Uhokgr or live.huffingtonpost.com and I thought we should share our talking points for the question: How do you compare old-school paper ballots vs. e-voting? I thought the answers would be particularly relevant to today’s NYT editorial on the election which concluded with this quote: … Continued

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