“Tech Thursday; States, counties, NGOs roll out more technology to help voters”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
Category Archives: voting technology
“Hack the Vote: The Perils of the Online Ballot Box; More than 30 states and territories already allow some form of Internet voting. They might want to reconsider.”
Bruce McConnell and Pamela Smith have written this WSJ oped.
“Technology Makes Voting Less Private”
“Capital Confusion: DC Officials Reveal Computer Failure Hampered April 1 Election”
“OVR is Dead, Long Live OVR: Minnesota Set to Enact Legislation After Judge Invalidates Existing System”
“Meet TrustTheVote, A Project To Make Voting Open Source And Transparent”
TechCrunch reports. How many people will confuse True the Vote and TrustTheVote?
Nebraska Becomes 20th State to Adopt Online Voter Registration
“Exclusive: ES&S iVotronic Touch-Screen Voting Systems Now For Sale on eBay!”
“The Technology of Voting”
“David Curtis, Green Party Candidate for CA Sec. of State, Strongly Supports Internet Voting”
New Washington State Suit to Insure Ballot Secrecy
See this pleading in White v. Skagit County. There has been similar litigation in Colorado.
“Digital voting machines are aging out of use”
USA Today:
The 2000 presidential election recount resulted in an outpouring of $3 billion in federal funds for states, counties and municipalities to buy new voting equipment, through the Help America Vote Act of 2002. A decade later, “machines… Continue reading
“Is Online Registration Reaching a Tipping Point?”
“Online Voter Registration: The Time Has Arrived”
Christopher Thomas (Michigan’s director of elections and member of the PCEA) has written this article (posted with permission) from the Michigan Bar Journal.