It’s just like us to be giddy about any new App to advance ease, convenience, and improved transparency of elections and their administration. So, when we heard about VotifyNow, I was thrilled to be tasked with writing a review. Well, maybe…
We recently received media inquiries for our comments about an article reporting on alleged security issues with parts of an election administration system in Hawaii. For a host of reasons, we were moved to publish our feedback we provided (and in more detail) on the article published by The Gateway Pundit, notwithstanding the history of this source…
The stakes in this election cycle have truly never been higher —not only in terms of the impact on the balance of power in Congress— but in terms of the integrity of the process and trust in the outcomes. I’ve departed Twitter to resume my work as an elections expert & analyst in my capacity as an OSET Institute Board member. So, let’s get to it…
I really don’t like starting a post with “I’m sorry to hear that…,” but I truly regret what seems like a large number of people experiencing real—but misplaced—concern about the non-bombshell of non-evidence of non-hacking of election computers in Mesa County, Colorado.
I’ve got to debunk a really troubling rumor. It’s about Internet voting, or more specifically, about those who oppose it. Longtime readers will recall that Internet voting is not one of the favorite topics here, not because it isn’t interesting, but because there are so many more nearer-term low-effort ways to use tech to improve … Continued
I’d like to explain more precisely what I meant by “your grandmother’s PC” in the NBC TV Bay Area’s report on election technology. Several people thought I was referring to voting machines as easily hacked by anyone with physical access, because despite appearances: Voting machines are like regular old PCs inside, and like any … Continued
The second day of the annual meeting of the Voting System Standards Committee was Friday Feb. 6. I’m concluding my reporting on the meeting with a round up of existing and proposed standards activity that we discussed on day 2. Each item below is about an existing working group, a group in formation, or proposed … Continued
In our most recent blog post we examined David Plouffe’s recent Wall Street Journal forward-looking op-ed [paywall] and rebalanced his vision with some practical reality. Now, let’s turn to Plouffe’s notion of “digital voting.” Honestly, that phrase is confusing and vague. We should know: it catalyzed our name change last year from Open Source Digital … Continued
David Plouffe, President Obama’s top political and campaign strategist and the mastermind behind the winning 2008 and 2012 campaigns, wrote a forward-looking op-ed [paywall] in the Wall Street Journal recently about the politics of the future and how they might look. He touched on how technology will continue to change the way campaigns are conducted … Continued
…not much we think. Yesterday’s news of Microsoft co-founder billionaire Paul Allen’s investing $40M in the Spanish election technology company Scytl is validation that elections remain a backwater of innovation in the digital age. But it is not validation that there is a viable commercial market for voting systems of the size typically attracting venture capitalists; the … Continued
