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Tag: open source election technology

Open Source Vote Tally: OSET’s Greg Miller interviewed on KPCC’s All Things Considered

Neil Johnson
October 31, 2018

This Tuesday, October 30, Nick Roman, KPCC’s host of All Things Considered, interviewed OSET’s Chair & COO, Greg Miller, to discuss the use of the open source VSAP 1.0 system that will be used to tally mail-in ballots for this November’s midterm election in LA County. The topics range from election security and transparency, open … Continued

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The Real Crisis of US Election Security

Neil Johnson
October 11, 2018

With the United States midterm elections coming soon, US election systems are already under attack, via false or misleading stories on social media (disinformation attacks). These systems are also vulnerable to more serious subversion attacks, where digital components are targeted and compromised to alter or manipulate the actual casting of ballots and tabulation of results. How did the US reach this crisis point, where this critical infrastructure is now so vulnerable? Is there any way to remedy this threat to the most fundamental building block of a healthy democracy, a secure and reliable voting system?

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VoteStream: Data-Wrangling of Election Results Data

John Sebes
January 24, 2014

      If you’ve read some of the ongoing thread about our VoteStream effort, it’s been a lot about data and standards. Today is more of the same, but first with a nod that the software development is going fine, as well. We’ve come up with a preliminary data model, gotten real results data … Continued

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Election Results Reporting – Assumptions About Standards and Converters (concluded)

John Sebes
December 30, 2013

Last time, I explained how our VoteStream work depends on the 3rd of 3 assumptions: loosely, that there might be a good way to get election results data (and other related data) out of their current hiding places, and into some useful software, connected by an election data standard that encompasses results data. But what … Continued

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Election Results Reporting – Assumptions About Standards and Converters

John Sebes
December 18, 2013

It’s time to finish — in two parts — the long-ish explanation of the assumptions behind our current “VoteStream” prototype stage of the TrustTheVote Project’s Election Result Reporting Platform (ENRS) project. As I said before, it is an exercise in validating some key assumptions, and discovering their limits. Previously, I’ve described our assumptions about election … Continued

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King’s Mighty Stream, Re-Visited

John Sebes
January 20, 2011

As I often do, I had a thoughtful Martin Luther King Day — as you can see from my still pondering a couple days later. But I think I now have something to share. Last time I wrote on MLK, I likened two unlikely things: King’s demand for social justice and peace, using Isaiah’s prophetic … Continued

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