Category Archives: voting technology

See this pleading in White v. Skagit County. There has been similar litigation in Colorado.

“Digital voting machines are aging out of use”

February 2, 2014, 9:03 pmelection administration, PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission), voting technologyRick Hasen

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?”

January 28, 2014, 7:53 amelection administration, voter registration, voting technologyRick Hasen

A ChapinBlog.

“Online Voter Registration: The Time Has Arrived”

January 26, 2014, 8:54 pmelection administration, PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission), voter registration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Christopher Thomas (Michigan’s director of elections and member of the PCEA) has written this article (posted with permission) from the Michigan Bar Journal.

“Understanding Online Voter Registration”

January 8, 2014, 7:26 amelection administration, voter registration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Pew: In June 2013, The Pew Charitable Trusts conducted a survey of the 13 states that offered online voter registration at that time: Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington.… Continue reading

“Overseas Vote Foundation to Launch Remote Voting Technology Research Project”

December 19, 2013, 1:26 pmelection administration, internet voting, military voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Press release: Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to overseas, military, and domestic absentee voter participation has received a grant from the Democracy Fund in support of a research-based approach to the unanswered question of whether… Continue reading

“Press Release: South Dakota Secretary of State Secures Technology to Improve Military Voting”

December 2, 2013, 8:06 pmelection administration, military voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

See here (following up on this post). I understand that some of the concerns raised by a reader seem to be addressed in this press release.

“Soldiers will be able to vote overseas; S.D. among first to use technology to enable voting while deployed”

December 1, 2013, 10:06 pmelection administration, military voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Argus Leader: Absentee voting proved so cumbersome for Maj. Anthony Deiss when the Army National Guardsman was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010 that he admits he “didn’t take advantage of it.” But that was then. Now thanks to technological… Continue reading