Building the People’s Voting System

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The Voting Information Project is cool

Yeah this is old hat to election-insiders (I am not yet one, so I can still have that sense of wonder 🙂 but I just took a drive through the “Voting Information Project” web site. I think it’s a cool idea that could be a template to catalyze very useful election related information resources in … Continued

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Congress MOVEs to Help Overseas Voters

The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act is probably not high on your radar screen of activities in the U.S. Congress — but it is important to me, for two reasons, aside from the most basic one that it enables broader access for overseas voters. The bill avoided partisan politics that usually sidelines any … Continued

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“I Have a Dream” too

Last Friday was the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech in Washington, DC., where so many of us remember him saying “I have a dream.” The anniversary caught me by surprise when I noted it in the news, and tugged at me all day: what could Dr. King’s words have to say about … Continued

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Voter Registration, Fraud, and Transparency

In this week’s news we have a classic example of how transparency (a.k.a. “open government”) has enormous potential to defuse some thorny political issues that can rise to the highest heights of U.S. political news.  The news is about Karl Rove’s involvement in Bush-administration actions to dismiss some U.S. Attorneys, including David Iglesias. A New … Continued

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Voter Registration: Modernization vs. Technology?

A recent New York Times editorial spoke in favor of changes to U.S. voter registration practices, citing a recent study from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. From a technology perspective, those changes raise the question of impact to existing I.T. systems for voter registration, both those is use … Continued

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Tech Improvements to Good Election Recipes

In a previous post I described the Minnesota election process recipe and later described some room for improvement — well, now you can read it straight from MN Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, what he’d like to do to improve the recipe. Those improvements are mainly in election process and practice. I’d like to stir … Continued

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The Dark Side of Voter Registration

I’ve noticed more coverage of election integrity issues relating to voter registration. It’s good to see some focus on VR-related problems, but I don’t see much about a deeper issue — transparency and publc accountability of the (im)proper use of voter registration systems and processes.

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