Live from NASED, want to pass along a comment about the engineering realities of a Digital Public Works Project, in the midst of listening to Congressional staffers discuss what’s up on the Hill regarding election reform legislation.  I just tweeted about the likelihood of making election day a federal holiday (its real and that should make our friends happy), but related comments on the panel sparks another observation.

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Greetings All-

I’m blogging live from the National Association of State Elections Directors Conference, Day-2.  And you can follow us Twittering live from the conference too (@osdv).  A quick comment here; perhaps more as the Day progresses.

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Wow! We learned a lot from visiting with the U.S. Congress this week, by attending and demonstrating to the Congressional Internet Caucus at the annual State of the ‘Net conference.

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Thanks to the Alert Reader that pointed me to http://change.org, the "Top Ten Issues" contest (winners to be presented in briefing to the new administration), and the issue about election technology reform at "Move The Country Towards Transparent Election Systems". (Check it out! You might want participate in the poll yourself.)

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Maybe it’s the "sleeper" event of the post-election, pre-inauguration season in DC — the "Voting in America Summit" conference (sponsored by Make Voting Work, a project of The Pew Center on the States in partnership with the JEHT Foundation).

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In a previous post, I noted two things we’ve learned from this election. The first (and subject of that post) is to what extent the Internet has changed the way elections are conducted. The second, and the focus here, is to what extent the election taught us anything about the need to re-invent HOW America votes.

In the past two days, I’ve been asked several times whether the election, as it turned out, reduces the importance of our Project or not. Seriously.

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I’ve said before that one factor in U.S. election complexity is the variety of requirements and practices in the balkanized election system. But people still (rightly!) ask, could the federal government do more to help?

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Part of the ecosystem of next generation voting technology certainly concerns voter registration. And then along the procees chain comes the "check in" of voters to vote (regardless of where or how they vote …absentee by mail, in person, or apparently over the Internet for some over-seas, etc.) …in other words, verifying the person is the person they claim as listed on the Register and entitled to a ballot.

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Well, Super Tuesday is finally upon us. And while OSDV is hard at work on a breakthrough model to demonstrate on HOW American can vote in a digital democracy, today marks a reminder for us of how imperative the mission of the OSDV Foundation is for the future.

And I hope you will join us. But before you think about doing that, please speak up and be heard - its your fundamental right in a democracy to do so - by casting your vote if you are in one of those 22 states casting primary votes today.

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Voting Fraud. An ugly phrase, and in this case, and uglier reality.

"Ghost Voting" they call it. But whatever it is, reforming HOW America votes (on anything) starts with principles. And no amount of tinkering with technology can fix social engineering problems.

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