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Election Standards, Day 2

The second day of the annual meeting of the Voting System Standards Committee was Friday Feb. 6. I’m concluding my reporting on the meeting with a round up of existing and proposed standards activity that we discussed on day 2. Each item below is about an existing working group, a group in formation, or proposed … Continued

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Election Standards – Part Two

Last time I reported on the first segment of the annual meeting of the Voting Systems Standards Group (VSSC) of the IEEE. Most of that segment was about the soon-to-be-standard for election definition and election results (called VSSC.2). I recapped some of the benefits of data standards, using that as an example.  Much of the … Continued

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Election Standards – What’s New

The annual meeting of U.S. elections standards board is this week. In addition to standards board members, several observers are here, and will be reporting. The next few blogs are solely my views (John Sebes), but I’ll do my best to write what I think is a consensus. However, today I’ll start with a closely related … Continued

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

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

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Voting Heartburn over “Heartbleed”

Heartbleed is the latest high-profile consumer Internet security  issue, only a few weeks after the “Goto Fail” incident. Both are recently discovered weaknesses in the way that browsers and Web sites interact. In both cases and others, I’ve seen several comments that connect these security issues with Internet voting. But because Heartbleed is pretty darn wicked, I can’t not … Continued

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Money Shot: What Does a $40M Bet on Scytl Mean?

…not much we think. Yesterday’s news of Microsoft co-founder billionaire Paul Allen’s investing $40M in the Spanish election technology company Scytl is validation that elections remain a backwater of innovation in the digital age. But it is not validation that there is a viable commercial market for voting systems of the size typically attracting venture capitalists; the … Continued

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Election Results: Data-Wrangling Los Angeles County

LA County CA is the mother of all election complexities, and the data wrangling was intense, even compared to the hardly simple efforts that I reported on previously. There are over 32,000 distinct voting regions, which I think is more than the number of seats, ridings, chairs, and so on, for every federal or state … Continued

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Election Results: Data-Wrangling Travis County

Congratulations if you are reading this post, after having even glanced at the predecessor about Ramsey County data wrangling — one of the longer and geekier posts in recent times at TrustTheVote. There is a similar but shorter story about our work with Travis County Texas. As with Ramsey, we started with a bunch of stuff … Continued

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