Building the People’s Voting System

Category: Development methodology

We get it: Paper is the Tip of the Iceberg

We recently had a conversation with a potential volunteer who accused us of incrementalism for (among other things) insisting on paper ballots and not pushing for online or smartphone voting. That got us thinking…

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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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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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At the Risk of Running off the Rails

So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world.  Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.”  I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity … Continued

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The Yin-Yang of Solution

Balance. The philosophy of yin-yang teaches among other
things that a struggle of energies provides balance and can even serve as a
flywheel of momentum. In a recent post, I
attempted to present some unique giving
propositions for the OSDV Foundation which were focused – in part – on the

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