Re-inventing How America Votes in a Digital Democracy
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009
On this important day in history, and inspired by our new President’s call to action, I want to briefly update you, the real stakeholders in our democracy, on our progress. I first want to thank all readers here — from the merely interested, to the ardent supporters of the Foundation — for your interest and passion in how we sustain one of the pillars of our democracy: the process of elections and the means by which we vote.
Today, at the start of a new chapter in our nation’s history, we have some thoughts and announcements.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2008
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2008
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
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2008
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.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2008
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.
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