Building the People’s Voting System

Category: Voting System Technology

TrustTheVote on HuffPost

We’ll be live on HuffPost online today at 8pm eastern: @HuffPostLive http://huff.lv/Uhokgr or live.huffingtonpost.com and I thought we should share our talking points for the question: How do you compare old-school paper ballots vs. e-voting? I thought the answers would be particularly relevant to today’s NYT editorial on the election which concluded with this quote: … Continued

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Election Snags

According to CNN’s Matt Smith, long lines and sporadic problems with voting machines caused snags in some key states during Tuesday’s closely watched U.S. election. For example, in Pennsylvania, nonpartisan election monitors from Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy said two voting machines had broken down at one precinct on the city’s north side, forcing poll workers … 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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Bedrock 2: Adventures at the Board of Elections

Today, we’ll continue our illustrative story of elections — and as in the first installment of the story, we’ll keep it simple with the setting in the Town of Bedrock. As we tune in, we find Fred Flintstone in downtown Bedrock at the offices of Cobblestone County’s Bedrock Board of Elections (BBoE). He’s checking up … Continued

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Bedrock of Election Management

As I said in my recent MLK posting, I’m starting a series of blogs that should provide a concrete example of election management, at a small scale and (I hope) with some interest value.  But before I tell a story of election management, we need to first have a story of an election, and this … Continued

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2011: A Look Ahead; Another Glance Back

As Greg said in his New Year’s posting, we’ve been planning a variety of activities for 2011, and reflecting on what we did in 2010, much that remains to do, and to do better. But at the risk of boring you with a laundry list, I wanted to provide some additional detail on some of … Continued

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