More on OSDV at PdF2008 -- How to Trust Voting Technology

I have a couple of updates on OSDV’s participation at next week’s Personal Democracy Forum ( PdF2008 ). As mentioned earlier, Greg Miller and John Sebes will be hosting a table in the Idea Market--now with the new and improved title “How to Trust Voting Technology.” In addition, PdF organizers have

OSDV at Personal Democracy Forum (PdF2008) -- How to Trust the Vote

My colleagues Greg Miller and John Sebes will be participating in the upcoming Personal Democracy Forum (PdF2008) in New York City, June 23-24. Specifically, they will be hosting a presentation table in the Idea Market on the topic of "How to Trust the Vote."

Digital Voting Systems — How to Build for Trust

Just back from an excellent (5th) edition of the Freedom to Connect Conference.

I want to tell you about another event next week our CTO will be speaking at descibed below, but first I owe a quick comment about F2C, as the Producer graciously gave us the podium to speak about the OSDV Project, which led to 3 hours of excellent conversation at an evening reception.

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

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!

PRI beats the e-voting dis-trust drum

Today's "The World" broadcast of Public Radio International had a couple of nifty quotes I wanted to share:

"The paper trail is not helpful if the software is not doing what what it should."

"For any electronic voting system to be successful, the voters have to trust the voting machines. In the U.S., that trust simply does not exist."