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District of Columbia to Adopt TrustTheVote Technology for Overseas Voter Support in September Primary

We’re pleased to echo the announcement by the District of Columbia’s Board of Election and Ethics (BOEE) that they will adopt TrustTheVote technology as part of a pilot project to support the delivery and return of overseas ballots. In Washington D.C.’s September primary election, open-source technology from the TrustTheVote Project will be used to digitally … Continued

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MOVE Act Implementation: Call For Participation

The TrustTheVote Project issued its first formal “Call For Participation” (“CFP”) to its Stakeholder Community last evening, and five elections jurisdiction have already indicated interest. The CFP is inviting collaboration from elections jurisdictions all over the country who need to determine how to comply with the mandates of the new federal MOVE Act — particularly … Continued

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Why Publish Ballots?

I’d like to thank Eric Rescorla for making an excellent and pithy point about the purpose of publishing images of  marked ballots.  But first, thanks (again) to Mitch Trachtenberg of the Humboldt Transparency Project for publishing a hand-picked set of ballot images that provide a great example of the difficult borderline cases of interpreting hard-marked … Continued

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Improving on the Minnesota Recipe

In yesterday‘s and other postings, I praised election officials in Minnesota, and said that election officials nationwide can learn a lot from how Minnesota conducts elections, including but not limited to audit and recount. Today I’d like to point out some improvements to the MN recipe, starting from the root cause of the need for … Continued

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House Panel OKs “Voting Paper Trail” Bill

I thought that today’s news about e-voting and legislation is notable as an example of the way voting technology and policy interact in our unique U.S. voting system.

First, what was Congress working on? Crafting legislation about elections; one bill to authorize payments to states for efforts to put in place paper ballots or paper audits for the November 2008 election, and another that effectively over-rules 21 states’ regulations requiring a voter to have a valid "excuse" to qualify for an absentee ballot (a.k.a. vote by mail).

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