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Accurate Election Results in Michigan and Wisconsin is Not a Partisan Issue

John Sebes

November 23, 2016

In the last few days, we’ve been getting several questions that are variations on: Should there be recounts in Michigan in order to make sure that the election results are accurate? For the word “accurate” people also use any of: “not hacked” “not subject to voting machine malfunction” “not the result of tampered voting machine” … Continued

More on CyberScoop Coverage of Voting Machine Vulnerabilities

John Sebes

November 8, 2016

CyberScoop‘s Chris Bing wrote a good summary of the response to Cylance’s poorly timed announcement of old news on voting machine vulnerabilities: Security Firm Stokes Election Hacking Fears. I have a couple of details to add, but first let me re-iterate that the system in question does have vulnerabilities which have been well known for years, … Continued

Introducing the Pennsylvania Voter Registration App

Iain Padley

September 19, 2016

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

A Response to POLITICO: Election Infrastructure as Critical Infrastructure

Gregory Miller

August 12, 2016

Below is a letter prepared by co-founders Gregory Miller and John Sebes sent to Tim Starks and Cory Bennett of POLITICO, who cover cyber-security issues. A formatted version is here. The signal-to-noise ratio on this subject is rapidly decreasing. There seems to be some fundamental misunderstandings of the challenges local election officials (LEOs) face; the … Continued

The Quest for a Boring Election

Iain Padley

August 4, 2016

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

Another Laudable Online Voting Architecture Concept But…

Gregory Miller

March 13, 2016

Recently, we were asked about a concept authored by a former technology executive at Citrix (yes, those folks) back in 2012 regarding a potential end to end secure voting system. But that was actually part of a larger question: whether and to what extent digital security must now live beneath the operating system software layer … Continued

Future of Voting Systems: Future Requirements (Part 1)

John Sebes

February 20, 2015

For this first of several reports from the NIST/EAC Future of Voting Systems Symposium II, some readers of my recent report on standard work, may heave a sigh of relief that I’m not doing a long post that’s a laundry list of topics. However, I will be doing a series of posts on one part … Continued

Biting the Bitcoin; Reflections on the Latest “Bitvote” Buzz

Gregory Miller

November 26, 2014

In those continuing efforts to route around the abysmal state of voting in America, we’re starting to hear an increasing drumbeat about Bitcoin as a basis for reinventing elections. We’ve been watching this discussion or evangelism unfold in the past few weeks. We even fielded questions from politicos in the Beltway last week about it … Continued

“Digital Voting”—Don’t believe everything you think

Gregory Miller

August 8, 2014

In our most recent blog post we examined David Plouffe’s recent Wall Street Journal forward-looking op-ed [paywall] and rebalanced his vision with some practical reality. Now, let’s turn to Plouffe’s notion of “digital voting.” Honestly, that phrase is confusing and vague. We should know: it catalyzed our name change last year from Open Source Digital … Continued

David Plouffe’s View of the Future of Voting — We Agree and Disagree

Gregory Miller

August 7, 2014

David Plouffe, President Obama’s top political and campaign strategist and the mastermind behind the winning 2008 and 2012 campaigns, wrote a forward-looking op-ed [paywall] in the Wall Street Journal recently about the politics of the future and how they might look. He touched on how technology will continue to change the way campaigns are conducted … Continued

Building the People’s Voting System

Category: Voting System Technology

Accurate Election Results in Michigan and Wisconsin is Not a Partisan Issue

John Sebes

More on CyberScoop Coverage of Voting Machine Vulnerabilities

John Sebes

Introducing the Pennsylvania Voter Registration App

Iain Padley

A Response to POLITICO: Election Infrastructure as Critical Infrastructure

Gregory Miller

The Quest for a Boring Election

Iain Padley

Another Laudable Online Voting Architecture Concept But…

Gregory Miller

Future of Voting Systems: Future Requirements (Part 1)

John Sebes

Biting the Bitcoin; Reflections on the Latest “Bitvote” Buzz

Gregory Miller

“Digital Voting”—Don’t believe everything you think

Gregory Miller

David Plouffe’s View of the Future of Voting — We Agree and Disagree

Gregory Miller

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