“Washington State partners with Microsoft and Facebook; Facebook voter registration app set to launch soon”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
Category Archives: voting technology
“Saving throw: securing democracy with stats, spreadsheets, and 10-sided dice”
Ars Technica offers this extensive report, which begins: “Armed with a set of 10-sided dice (we’ll get to those in a moment), an online Web tool, and a stack of hundreds of ballots, University of California-Berkeley statistics professor Philip … Continue reading
“Wisconsin: Election Fairness looks to count all paper ballots in recall”
This item appears at the Recall Elections Blog.
Can I Interest You In a DRE?
Ireland decided to buy — and then scrap — 7500 electronic voting machines after concerns about reliability and security. Now it looks like the recycling firm that bought them may be auctioning a few of them for charity, at 100… Continue reading
Closure in the Battle of the Aspen Ballots
Looks like the Colorado Supreme Court has backed out in the fight over review of ballot images from Aspen’s 2009 mayoral race. The ballots, it appears, will remain public records.
Lever Machines May Live On in NY
Latest Issue of NCSL’s “The Canvass” Focuses on Voting Technology
Read it here.
“South Dakota Secretary of State Jason M. Gant pleased with new cloud based election night reporting solution”
The following press release just arrived via email:
After overseeing the June Primary election this past Tuesday evening, Secretary of State Jason Gant made the following statement regarding the operation of election systems across South Dakota:
“For this election, we… Continue reading
LA County Still Using Lousy InkaVote System for Voting
I just voted. I thought LA officials were smart not to rush into buying new voting machines after they had to ditch the punch card machines. (After all, there have been controversies surrounding electronic voting machines and some jurisdictions, like… Continue reading
“NIST: Internet voting not yet feasible”
This is consistent with the best research I’ve seen, which I describe in Chapter 6 of The Voting Wars.
Moritz-ELJ Conference: HAVA at 10
I’m pleased to announce that The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law will host a conference on Friday, May 18, 2012 to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, with papers to be published… Continue reading
Yes, This Stuff Still Happens in Florida
The paper-only Election Administration Reports contains an article entitled “Routine Post-Election Audit in Palm Beach County, Florida, Identifies Errors that Reversed Results in Two Election Contests.”
“Dominion Voting Systems acknowledged that a software ‘shortcoming’ caused votes to be assigned to… Continue reading
Something Internet Voting Supporters Should Keep in Mind
WaPo: “At least half a dozen countries with offensive cyber-capabilities are probing U.S. corporate and military computer systems, looking for data and a toehold should they one day want to disrupt or destroy the networks, according to the FBI’s… Continue reading
What Happens When a Post-Election Audit Shows the Wrong Candidate Won?
Doug Chapin explains the Wellington, Florida drama.