Building the People’s Voting System

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Election Results Reload: the Time is Right

In my last post, I said that the time is right for breaking the logjam in election results reporting, enabling a big reload on technology for reporting, and big increase in public transparency. Now, let me explain why, starting with the biggest of several reasons.  Elections data standards are needed to define common data formats … Continued

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Towards Standardized Election Results Data Reporting

Now that we are a ways into our “Election Night Reporting System” project, we want to start sharing some of what we are learning.  We had talked about a dedicated Wiki or some such, but our time was better spent digging into the assignment graciously supported by the Knight Foundation Prototype Fund.  Perhaps the best … Continued

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“Why is There a Voting Tech Logjam in Washington

“Why is There a Voting Tech Logjam?” — that’s a good question! A full answer has several aspects, but one of them is the acitivty (or in-activity) at the Federal level, that leads to very limited options in election tech. For a nice pithy explanation of that aspect, check out the current issue of the … Continued

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Sequel to A.G. Holder “Fix That” — Can Do!

In my last post, I said that we might be onto something, an idea for many of the benefits of universal automatic permanent voter registration, without the need for Federal-plus-50-states overhaul of policy, election law, and election technology that would be required for actual UAP VR. Here is a sketch of what that might be. … Continued

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A.G. Holder Wants to “Fix That” for Voter Registration

In a public speech yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called for universal, automatic voter registration, and stated that current technology can accomplish that, despite the fact that the current system is complex and error-prone. As Reuters reported on Holder’s remarks: By coordinating existing databases, the government could register “every eligible voter in America” and … Continued

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Vote Adding Machine Problems in FL — We Have to Fix That!

Despite today’s blog docket being for RockTheVote, I just can’t resist pointing out a recurring type of technology-triggered election dysfunction that is happening again, and is 100% preventable using election technology that we have already developed. Here’s the scoop: in St. Lucie County, Florida, the LEOs are having trouble coming up with a county wide … Continued

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UOCAVA Remote Voting Workshop Makes a Strong Finish

24 hours ago I, along with some others, was actually considering asking for a refund.  We had come to the EAC, NIST, and FVAP co-hosted UOCAVA Remote Voting Systems 2 Day Workshop, expecting to feast on some fine discussions about the technical details and nuances of building remote voting systems for overseas voters that could … Continued

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