OSDV Presenting March 6th - "Saving Democracy from Computers: Creating Trust in Next Gen Digital Voting"

Submitted by jsebes on March 5, 2008 - 4:03pm. PST

I'll be speaking tomorrow, March 6th, at 7pm at this month's meeting of the Cooltech Club. Information about the meeting is here. The title of the talk is: "Saving Democracy from Computers: Creating Trust in Next Gen Digital Voting." Given that over 50 of the club's 300+ members usually attend, and are hard-nosed techie types, I'm expecting to have some good Q&A and report on how e-voting issues look to this little slice of Silicon Valley. Stay tuned!

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Press Flak on California Tsunami Tuesday

Submitted by jsebes on January 21, 2008 - 6:02pm. PST

It's pretty certain that California is in for some serious flak from the press regarding how the Tsunami Tuesday primary election is conducted. Today we saw an opening salvo in the San Francisco Examiner on a refreshingly pragmatic issue of voting technology that has nothing to do with voting devices in precint -- but rather how absentee ballots are counted.

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Keeping an Eye on the Ball...

Submitted by gmiller on December 14, 2007 - 11:43am. PST

Focus. That’s the real job of those of us chartered with stewardship of the OSDV Foundation. There are other important jobs for other folks - lobbying Congress for election reform, publishing substantive policy position papers, performing research, and commenting on proposed legislation or regulation – all are important aspects of advancing election reform, but more or less consist of talking, not making.

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States' Testing of Voting Technology

Submitted by gmiller on December 12, 2007 - 1:22pm. PST

Confidence - or maybe it’s about lack thereof, if you look at from the point of view of commentator Rady Ananda. While she produced another nicely compiled report today in OpEdNews.Com on several states that have conducted additional detailed studies of the security involved in software-driven election systems, she did little to inst

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And On We Go...

Submitted by gmiller on December 10, 2007 - 12:47pm. PST

Happy Holidays – we’re off and running! This is likely to be one of my longest postings of blather, but I feel it’s important to make this case early on-- Why OSDV? -- and then we can focus on other matters. So bear with me because I’d like to learn what you think in response.

As Chief Development Officer, I continually meet with business executives to discuss how the OSDV Foundation can raise the funding it needs to accomplish its mission. The good news is the level of enthusiasm I hear from these thought leaders.

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What This Blog is About

Submitted by jsebes on December 10, 2007 - 12:38pm. PST

For the first ever blog posting at OSDV, I thought I'd answer a couple basic questions about why we blog and what people can expect to find here - and what not to expect.

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