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Future of Voting Systems: Future Requirements (Part 2)

At the recent NIST/EACG Future of Voting Systems Workshop II, EAC folks asked participants for input on possible future requirements for future voting systems. I subsequently blogged here some suggestions based on the experience of the TrustTheVote Project. Today, I’ll continue that theme, but first briefly revisit my prior remarks.

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Tabulator Troubles in Colorado

More tabulator troubles! In addition to the continuing saga in New York with the tabulator troubles I wrote about earlier, now there is another tabulator-related situation in Colorado. The news report from Saguache County CO is about: a Nov. 5 “retabulation” of votes cast in the Nov. 2 election Friday by Myers and staff, with … Continued

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Where We Stand – on D.C. and Elsewhere

We’ve been answering lots of questions about the OSDV Foundation’s role in the District of Columbia’s Pilot “digital vote-by-mail” project, including a recent post with a detailed account of the history leading up to the Pilot.  But there is one Q&A in particular that I want to share with a broader audience. It’s a two-part … Continued

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Dude, What Is My Ballot, Really?

(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

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Dude, Where’s My Ballot?

I just finished voting in CA’s primary — whew! 47 contests, 76 candidates total, and for on-paper voters, 4 sheets! But today, instead of hand-marking a ballot (my preference explained in an earlier posting), I used a DRE. This voting machine is part of the voting system that San Mateo County purchased from Hart Systems, … Continued

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Childhood Ballot Confessions

I have to admit, I like paper ballots. But it wasn’t always that way. As a small child, I remember going into the voting booth with a parent, and watching them use those fine old lever machines. They were cool. The curtain made it seem like something both secret and important was happening. The little … Continued

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Kudos to Cuyahoga

I was very encouraged by recent election news from Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper: Reason for election machine glitch found, officials expect things to be OK for the primary. At first blush, it might seem like bad news: All told, 89 of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections‘  1,200 machines … Continued

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How to Trust a Voting Machine

[Today’s guest post is from election technology expert Doug Jones, who is now revealed as also being an encyclopedia of U.S. elections history. Doug’s remarks below were in a discussion about how to effectively use post-election ballot-count audits as a means to gain trust in the correct operation of voting machines — particularly timely, given … Continued

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