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Crowd Sourcing Polling Place Wait Times – Part 2

Gregory Miller

March 25, 2013

Last time, we wrote about the idea of a voter information service where people could crowd source the data about polling place wait times, so that other voters would benefit by not going when the lines are getting long, and so that news media and others could get a broad view of how well or … Continued

Long Lines to Vote: Progressive, Conservative, Net-head, Bell-head

John Sebes

February 5, 2013

I hate to see news outlets casting in a partisan political view the issues of voter registration and ready access to the voting booth. But don’t give up on the NYT article Waiting Times at Ballot Boxes Draw Scrutiny despite its partisan lead sentence. I rarely do political commentary, but I’ll to a little today, … Continued

Dude, What Is My Ballot, Really?

John Sebes

June 21, 2010

(Part 2 of 2: What’s My Ballot?) Today, I’m continuing on from a recent post, which compared my in-person voting experience with one method of Internet-based voting: return of marked ballots by fax or email. Next up is a similar comparison with another form of Internet-based voting: Internet voting from home using a PC’s Web … Continued

MOVE Act Implementation: Call For Participation

Gregory Miller

February 12, 2010

The TrustTheVote Project issued its first formal “Call For Participation” (“CFP”) to its Stakeholder Community last evening, and five elections jurisdiction have already indicated interest. The CFP is inviting collaboration from elections jurisdictions all over the country who need to determine how to comply with the mandates of the new federal MOVE Act — particularly … Continued

Barbara Simons on Voter Registration

Gregory Miller

January 11, 2010

We have a special treat today with a guest blog from Barbara Simons, an eminent computer scientist who is on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. (More on Barbara: her bio.) She has an excellent account of part of the story about where voter registration came from, and why it is … Continued

Two Ballots, New Ballots

John Sebes

November 17, 2009

Following a previous post with before-and-after pictures of an ideal “re-modeling”of a ballot, I have a couple notes about how such remodeling is harder in practice; another ballot image to illustrate; and some good news about on-going TTV work on ballot image processing. That ideal remodeling showed how to both fix one of class of … Continued

Levers, HAVA, and “Compliance”

John Sebes

October 15, 2009

Kudos to Brad Friedman for making a good call on a subtle point in his comment on my posting about Bo Lipari‘s coverage of the NY State testing of voting systems. Brad objects to my statement that lever machines are not compliant with the Help Amercia Vote Act (HAVA). And rightly so! The bad news … Continued

Tales From Real Life: Testing

John Sebes

October 9, 2009

Another in our series of real life stories … how it actually works for real election officials to test a new voting system that they might be adopting for use in the state. The backplot is that New York State has been unwilling to give up its admittedly no-longer-legal* lever machines, until the the state … Continued

Tales from Real Life: Accessibility

John Sebes

October 2, 2009

Possible futures of election technology … something you read about here a good deal. For some contrast, I want to offer some pointers to real people telling real stories about how real voting systems work today. And I don’t mean the horror stories about voting machine breakdowns and security problems. These stories are from people … Continued

Which Accessible Voting “Model”? … All of the Above

John Sebes

May 7, 2009

Continuing the story of accessible voting and the "we just build stuff" mantra of the TrustTheVote project, I have an example of a serious mis-understanding that can easily arise because of the jargon and procedural confusion I wrote about earlier.

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Crowd Sourcing Polling Place Wait Times – Part 2

Gregory Miller

Long Lines to Vote: Progressive, Conservative, Net-head, Bell-head

John Sebes

Dude, What Is My Ballot, Really?

John Sebes

MOVE Act Implementation: Call For Participation

Gregory Miller

Barbara Simons on Voter Registration

Gregory Miller

Two Ballots, New Ballots

John Sebes

Levers, HAVA, and “Compliance”

John Sebes

Tales From Real Life: Testing

John Sebes

Tales from Real Life: Accessibility

John Sebes

Which Accessible Voting “Model”? … All of the Above

John Sebes

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