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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.
“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).
NYT: Smartphone Voting? TrustTheVote: No, But How About This … DIY Voter Lookup
Much as I admire everybody at the New York Times, I have to disagree with Nick Bilton on his piece Disruptions: Casting a Ballot by Smartphone. I have to say I don't blame him though, especially given the broad range of coverage of the many many kinds election dysfunction that occurred and are still occurring now during state canvassing....
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...
RSA Conference: More 2008 Election Tech Lessons Learned - Auditing
Election audit was the second lessons-learned topic from the RSA panel that I wrote about earlier. I illustrate with two examples.