News & Insights
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Our timely insights share informed perspectives on the rapidly evolving story of Election Technology, as it unfolds.
iVoting: The Estonia Experience Cannot Be an American Expectation …Anytime Soon
A long form look on the Estonian iVoting experience and our thoughts on why it’s not feasible here at home.
Into the (Voting) Wild
Alaska will allow absentee voters to submit their ballot via a "secure online voting solution", aka e-mail. We're holding our breath.
Ms. Voting Matters' Take: "No Magic Will Bring About Online Voting"
Ms. Voting Matters would really like to wave her magic wand and allow everyone on the planet to cast their votes, securely, with their smart phones, tablets, or laptops. Really truly, I would do it if I could. But I can’t. The Internet of Voting is just not safe and secure enough now, no matter how much we all would wish it so. Let me share why.
“Digital Voting”—Don’t believe everything you think
In at recent blog post we examined David Plouffe’s recent Wall Street Journal forward-looking op-ed [paywall] and rebalanced his vision with some practical reality.
Now, let’s turn to Plouffe’s notion of “digital voting.” Honestly, that phrase is confusing and vague. We should know: it catalyzed our name change last year from Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) to Open Source Election Technology Foundation (OSET).
Where We Stand on DC and Elsewhere
We've been answering lots of questions about the OSDV Foundation’s role in the District of Columbia's Pilot "digital vote-by-mail" project, including a recent post with a detailed account of the history leading up to the Pilot...