Building the People’s Voting System

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Voting System (De)certification – A Way Forward? (2 of 2)

Yesterday I wrote about the latest sign of the downward spiral of the broken market in which U.S. local election officials (LEOs) purchase product and support from vendors of proprietary voting system products, monolithic technology the result of years’ worth of accretion, and costing years and millions to test and certify for use — including … Continued

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EAC Guidelines for Overseas Voting Pilots

Last Friday was a busy day for the Federal Elections Assistance Commission.  They issued their Report to Congress on efforts to establish guidelines for remote voting systems.  And they closed their comment period at 4:00pm for the public to submit feedback on their draft Pilot Program Testing Requirements. This is being driven by the MOVE … Continued

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Election Tech Pilots — Panel Video Now Online

I’ve got a word to say about “pilots”. It seems timely given what seems to be a serious uptick in discussion, legislation, and trials of “pilots” of new use of election technology. Actually, the words have already been said, and by people who know much more than I do about it, at the UOCAVA Summit … Continued

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Ballot Design and the importance of (simple) usability tests

In another department of our megaplex one of my colleagues, Aleks Totic is working on ballot layout and design for the TrustTheVote technology suite. I came across this great blog post from the Brennan Center at NYU that describes a recent situation where it appears a simple bit of questionable (but valid) layout may have … Continued

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Tales From Real Life: Testing

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

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