Category Archives: voting technology

“Auditor: California has inefficiently spent millions earmarked for voting systems”

August 9, 2013, 9:19 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

SacBee: “Confusing and inconsistent direction from the California Secretary of State’s Office has led the state to inefficiently spend millions of federal dollars earmarked to improve voting systems, according to a state audit released Thursday.” You can find a… Continue reading

Elections? There’s an App for That

August 7, 2013, 7:15 amcampaign finance, voter registration, voting technologyDan Tokaji

The NYT reports here on the NYC Votes app from the City’s Campaign Finance Board, designed “to make it easier to register to vote, give money and communicate with campaigns, all from the palm of your hand.”

David Jefferson on College Vote Hack

July 17, 2013, 10:00 aminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

David Jefferson sends along these observation: I just read Doug Chapin’s article on the vote rigging at Cal State San Marcos, and I would add several observations. Had this been a public election conducted via Internet voting, it would have… Continue reading

“Cautionary Tale: Student Gets Jail Time for Stealing Online School Election”

July 17, 2013, 7:43 aminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

A ChapinBlog.

“College kid steals classmates’ login info, uses it to rig student body president election – gets year in jail time for his trouble”

July 16, 2013, 3:59 pmchicanery, voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Online Voter Registration”

May 30, 2013, 7:42 pmelection administration, voter registration, voting technologyRick Hasen

New report from Project Vote.

“New York City Wants to Revive Old Voting Machines”

May 29, 2013, 7:44 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT reports. Lots of nostalgia for these machines among Ne York—but it is really time to move on and for NY to adopt some more reliable voting technology and actually be able to pull off a run-off election without dusting… Continue reading

“Who Registers to Vote Online?”

April 29, 2013, 1:50 pmvoter registration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Michael McDonald: Overall, these patterns suggest that the partisan implications of online voter registration are unclear. Registered Republicans appear to more often use Maryland’s online system to initiate a new registration while Democrats use it to update an existing… Continue reading

“More than a decade after HAVA, it’s time to go shopping; Counties and states begin purchasing new voting equipment”

April 25, 2013, 9:17 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.

The Future of Voting Technology in Los Angeles

April 24, 2013, 8:56 pmelection administration, internet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

The Brad Blog speaks to LA County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan. If you can get past the breathlessness, there’s a lot of interesting stuff in here.

“The Future of Online Voting Begins Now”

April 24, 2013, 5:32 pmelection administration, internet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Press release: “Sacramento – Assemblymember Philip Y. Ting (D-San Francisco) presented the merits of legislation he authored to create a pathway to online voting for Californians. AB 19, heard in the Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee today, would allow… Continue reading

“Helping LA County Build a Voting System”

April 1, 2013, 7:42 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Joe Hall: “This past week I was at the kick-off meeting of the LA County Voting System Assessment Project’s (VSAP) Technical Advisory Committee. The VSAP is Registrar/Clerk Dean Logan’s intense and groundbreaking effort to design, develop, procure and implement… Continue reading

“University of South Carolina professor hacks Courier-Journal online poll to ‘get the discussion going'”

March 23, 2013, 7:17 pmchicanery, election administration, internet voting, The Voting Wars, voting technologyRick Hasen

Courier-Journal: An unscientific online poll conducted on The Courier-Journal’s website was hacked Thursday by two University of South Carolina students and a professor. The poll, hosted by Polldaddy, asked website viewers, “Should overseas U.S. military personnel be allowed to… Continue reading

“Kentucky Democrats say online voting would be more secure than vulnerable Florida system”

March 21, 2013, 8:32 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voting technologyRick Hasen

Courier-Journal: “As Kentucky Democrats make a last-minute push to allow U.S. military personnel overseas to vote online, Florida is reporting what appears to be the first case of someone trying to manipulate U.S. voting through the Internet.” Let me… Continue reading