Building the People’s Voting System

Category: TrustTheVote

Introducing the Pennsylvania Voter Registration App

The TrustTheVote Project is proud to announce the launch of the Pennsylvania Voter Registration App developed in partnership with Rock the Vote, Pennsylvania Voice, and the office of the Pennsylvania Secretary of State.  This first in the nation program is the culmination of over a year of work and marks a significant improvement in the … Continued

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The Quest for a Boring Election

This week has been a sort of public reintroduction to the awesome challenges faced by our Local Election Officials. For many Americans the terms “hanging chad” and “butterfly ballot” have long slipped from daily use, but the threats to our democratic institutions remain.  In fact, these threats have only grown in complexity since our last … Continued

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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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Election Standards, Day 2

The second day of the annual meeting of the Voting System Standards Committee was Friday Feb. 6. I’m concluding my reporting on the meeting with a round up of existing and proposed standards activity that we discussed on day 2. Each item below is about an existing working group, a group in formation, or proposed … Continued

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Election Standards – What’s New

The annual meeting of U.S. elections standards board is this week. In addition to standards board members, several observers are here, and will be reporting. The next few blogs are solely my views (John Sebes), but I’ll do my best to write what I think is a consensus. However, today I’ll start with a closely related … Continued

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Voting Heartburn over “Heartbleed”

Heartbleed is the latest high-profile consumer Internet security  issue, only a few weeks after the “Goto Fail” incident. Both are recently discovered weaknesses in the way that browsers and Web sites interact. In both cases and others, I’ve seen several comments that connect these security issues with Internet voting. But because Heartbleed is pretty darn wicked, I can’t not … Continued

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The “VoteStream Files” A Summary

The TrustTheVote Project Core Team has been hard at work on the Alpha version of VoteStream, our election results reporting technology. They recently wrapped up a prototype phase funded by the Knight Foundation, and then forged ahead a bit, to incorporate data from additional counties, provided by by participating state or local election officials after … Continued

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Election Results: Data-Wrangling Ramsey County

Next up are several overdue reports on data wrangling of county level election data, that is, working with election officials to get legacy data needed for election results; and then putting the data into practical use. It’s where we write software to chew up whatever data we get, put it in a backend system, re-arrange … Continued

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