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
An interesting article appeared Monday in the TechDirt community, keyed by Timothy Lee, discussing a point I've tried to make before and undoubtedly will try to make in the future. This point, nicely discussed by Tim, is about the distinction between e-voting and e-commerce.
Interesting news: on 27 February, the New York State Board of Elections unanimously adopted a resolution that would provide for waiver of fees for certification testing of open source software. The official announcement says that the Board may elect to waive fees (that a vendor pays for examination of a voting system) if the vendor meets some specific conditions of proof that the system is open source.
It looks like there may some movement away from the current situation in which U.S. elections are increasingly outsourced and
Here is a first-ever admission: a real software bug in a real voting system can drop real votes, and has