John Sebes, Author at TrustTheVote

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electoral College

John Sebes

November 7, 2012

OK, so I don’t actually love the Electoral College — I think nobody does — but at least this time we were spared the experience of a Strangelove-esque near-meltdown with a one-state margin in the Electoral College, and severe electoral dysfunction in key states. But as usual this time every four years, I’m seeing a … Continued

NJ Election Officials, Displaced Voters, Email Ballots, and more

John Sebes

November 6, 2012

There’s plenty of activity in the NY/NJ area reacting to voters’ difficulties because of Super-Storm Sandy, including being displaced from their homes or otherwise unable to get to polling places. As always, the role of technology captured my attention. But first, the more important points. Some displaced people are having trouble even finding a place … Continued

Possible Ohio Election Meltdown — from a Clunky Database?

John Sebes

November 5, 2012

Tomorrow is Election Day 2012, and with many people experiencing pre-election angst, perhaps now is not the time to start telling our patient readers what the heck we’ve been doing in technology land for the last several months. Right now, we’re in a bit of a breather, as election officials and other partners have been … Continued

Congratulations to California SoS Bowen – Online Voter Registration

John Sebes

September 19, 2012

Congratulations to California’s Secretary of State Deborah Bowen, and the whole State Elections group, and their technology providers and operators! Today Bowen’s office announced the launch of the state’s new online voter registration system, which enables paperless online voter registration for those citizens of CA who already have a current driver’s license with a paper-based … Continued

NYT on Voting System “Plagues”

John Sebes

July 31, 2012

We’re racing the calendar to cram in more voter-assisting features to the voter registration system projects that we have in hand. I am really looking forward to a slowing of the pace here, and having more time to blog and explain the benefits we’re delivering with these systems — particularly so, because voter registration issues … Continued

Public Benefit from Online Voter Registration?

John Sebes

July 3, 2012

Some feedback on a couple recent blogs showed that I didn’t do such a great job on defining how our OVR work creates public benefit. So let me try again, with thanks to a canny reader who pointed out the subtlety involved. But first, let me restate what our OVR work is: online voter registration … Continued

Online Voter Registration for Jurisdictions Large and Small (Part 2)

John Sebes

June 19, 2012

My last posting was a bit of a cliff-hanger (sorry) for the claims that: We’re doing useful work to enable NGOs and election officials to offer online voter registration assistance to voters … … without doing a major acquisition or system integration of the scale that VA is doing now (with OSDV help) or that … Continued

Online Voter Registration for Jurisdictions Large and Small

John Sebes

May 16, 2012

Much of OSDV’s currrent work relates to election technology for voter registration.* In recent blog posts, I’ve been talking about voter registration in the context of OSDV’s mission to put much needed, innovative election technology into the hands of elections officials and voters who are underserved by the best that the for-profit election technology market … Continued

New Citizens: Adding Usability to the Voter Registration Process

John Sebes

May 10, 2012

As I wrote last time, I had the wonderful opportunity to observe a citizenship oath ceremony. It had a big emphasis on voting, and included San Francisco elections department people on hand to help the new citizens register to vote. Today, I wanted to share the flip side of what I saw, and I want … Continued

Naturalization, Citizenship, and Voter Registration

John Sebes

April 18, 2012

I’m sitting in the historic grand Paramount Theater in Oakland, California. Perhaps an odd place from which to return to blogging after some time, but I wanted to re-start on a personal note that’s also quite connected to the voter registration technology work that we’ve been doing over the last many months. I’ve just witnessed … Continued

Building the People’s Voting System

Author: John Sebes

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electoral College

John Sebes

NJ Election Officials, Displaced Voters, Email Ballots, and more

John Sebes

Possible Ohio Election Meltdown — from a Clunky Database?

John Sebes

Congratulations to California SoS Bowen – Online Voter Registration

John Sebes

NYT on Voting System “Plagues”

John Sebes

Public Benefit from Online Voter Registration?

John Sebes

Online Voter Registration for Jurisdictions Large and Small (Part 2)

John Sebes

Online Voter Registration for Jurisdictions Large and Small

John Sebes

New Citizens: Adding Usability to the Voter Registration Process

John Sebes

Naturalization, Citizenship, and Voter Registration

John Sebes

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