Building the People’s Voting System

Category: Election Security

Election Official Exodus is Not an Extinction Event

Choosing to go into election administration is a noble, albeit thankless, career pursuit. This line of work has many responsibilities, without a steady supply of funding, personnel, or training in how to navigate the last couple of years of attacks, threats, and wasteful legal action, which have forced election officials to be on the defensive, and increasingly racing for the doors and calling quits….

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VotifyNow, Ask Questions Later? 🤔

It’s just like us to be giddy about any new App to advance ease, convenience, and improved transparency of elections and their administration. So, when we heard about VotifyNow, I was thrilled to be tasked with writing a review. Well, maybe…

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Gateway Pundit’s Much Ado About Nothing

We recently received media inquiries for our comments about an article reporting on alleged security issues with parts of an election administration system in Hawaii. For a host of reasons, we were moved to publish our feedback we provided (and in more detail) on the article published by The Gateway Pundit, notwithstanding the history of this source…

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Democracy is @Stake

The stakes in this election cycle have truly never been higher —not only in terms of the impact on the balance of power in Congress— but in terms of the integrity of the process and trust in the outcomes. I’ve departed Twitter to resume my work as an elections expert & analyst in my capacity as an OSET Institute Board member. So, let’s get to it…

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Never Break The Chain

Maintaining the chain-of-custody for all assets in a public election is one of the most important aspects of election administration. Simply, it’s a legally binding paper trail. When there’s a break in the chain, the repercussions can damage the reputation of a local jurisdiction or an entire state for years (and these days, not to mention enable an election to be called into question). Problem: Its now happening with disturbing regularity.

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Ballot Watermarks Already Exist

Ed. Note: We’re pleased to have election administration veteran and creator of #ElectionTwitter, Genya Coulter as our guest author to follow-up on an article last weekend on our parent’s site examining the proposed ballot anti-counterfeit watermarking legislation in front of the Arizona legislature and in at least three others states …

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CISA Stands Up For Elections

There’s lots of goodness in the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) taking steps to prioritize federal elections and security of all public elections. This includes the arrival of Kim Wyman. However, a move that caught our attention was CISA designating  elections as part of “national critical functions.” Let’s unpack this.

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Blockchain ❤️ Breakers

It appears necessary to do some more debunking, but not about “The Big Lie” (aka election Kraken), rather about the Blockchain — that overly-hyped, open, highly distributed, public ledger. Why more debunking? In the case of blockchains and elections, the confusion just keeps coming up again and again, zombie-like, and I keep saying the same things over and over — so I figured if I write it down…

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Krakenbusting: Moving On After the Statistics Zombies

Election 2020 is over, and many of the wilder conspiracy theories about “the stolen election” are receding into zombie-dom. However, we’re still seeing some persistent “concerns” about election results that “can’t be right” because “something’s wrong with these numbers” based on amateur statistical analysis and a complete misunderstanding of election night reporting. So crazy are these “concerns” that we’re compelled to continue trying to quash the Kraken.
We’re not afraid of any Kraken, so let’s do this…

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