Category Archives: voting technology
“Electronic voting machines becoming obsolete”
The Salt Lake Tribune reports
(via Doug Chapin).
“Modernizing Ohio’s election system includes online voter registration”
Ohio SOS Jon Husted has written this oped.
“This September May Be New York City’s Voting Apocalypse”
“The Call for Internet Voting Gets Louder”
Brian Newby, Election Commissioner in Johnson County, Kansas, writes.
I argue in Chapter 5 of The Voting Wars that Internet Voting at this time would be a huge mistake.
“Auditor: California has inefficiently spent millions earmarked for voting systems”
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
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
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”
“College kid steals classmates’ login info, uses it to rig student body president election – gets year in jail time for his trouble”
“Online Voter Registration”
New report from Project Vote.
“New York City Wants to Revive Old Voting Machines”
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?”
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”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.