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Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 6: What Needs to Change?

Eddie Perez

August 12, 2019

This is the final of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 5: What’s Required to Update?

Eddie Perez

August 11, 2019

This is the 5th of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 4: When to Update

Eddie Perez

August 10, 2019

This is the 4th of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 3: The Fees

Eddie Perez

August 9, 2019

This is the 3rd of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 2: The Physical Purchase

Eddie Perez

August 8, 2019

This is the 2nd of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 1: Background

Eddie Perez

August 7, 2019

This is the 1st of a 6-part series of slightly longer vignettes on the challenge of updating voting systems. It’s a slice-and-dice of a recent Briefing on the topic. It’s intended to acquaint relatively newcomers to understanding how voting system are purchased and maintained.

Elections + National Security = Hardware Threats + Policy Questions

John Sebes

August 1, 2017

U.S. election technology is increasingly regarded as critical to national interests. In discussions about the national-level importance of election technology, I’ve also increasingly heard the term “national security” used. The idea seems to be that election technology is as important as other national-security-critical systems. That’s fair enough in principle, but at present we are a … Continued

Dismantling Federal Assistance to US Elections — The Freeze/Thaw Cycle

John Sebes

April 7, 2017

Last time I wrote in this series on the EAC being dismantled, I used the metaphor of freezing and thawing to describe not only how the EAC’s effectiveness has been limited, but also the consequence: We now have voting systems that have been vetted with standards and processes that are almost as Jurassic as the pre-Internet era. … Continued

The Freeze Factor – Dismantling Federal Assistance to U.S. Elections

John Sebes

April 4, 2017

“Frozen” is my key word for what happens to the voting system certification process after EAC is dismantled. And in this case, frozen can be really harmful. Indeed, as I will explain, we’ve already seen how harmful. Last time I wrote in this series on the EAC being dismantled (see the first and second posts), … Continued

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Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 6: What Needs to Change?

Eddie Perez

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 5: What’s Required to Update?

Eddie Perez

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 4: When to Update

Eddie Perez

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 3: The Fees

Eddie Perez

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 2: The Physical Purchase

Eddie Perez

Plain Talk Series on Understanding Voting System Updates Part 1: Background

Eddie Perez

Elections + National Security = Hardware Threats + Policy Questions

John Sebes

Dismantling Federal Assistance to US Elections — The Freeze/Thaw Cycle

John Sebes

The Freeze Factor – Dismantling Federal Assistance to U.S. Elections

John Sebes

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