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Open Source Goes Ballistic
Validation.It’s a nice thing when you can get it. We may have unintentionally gained just a little today in a sideways sort of way.
Navigating Everest: Rocket Science?
Rocket Science.It doesn’t take rocket science to understand the essentials of systems integrity. But, wait a minute! It does take rocket science to properly make high integrity systems.
And Another Certification Bites The Dust
Certification. Its hot news. Today its Colorado. Just check out how much coverage the Colorado's State Secretary received in declaring three out of four of the state's digital voting equipment vendors' products unfit for service, or at least unreliable, and decertifying their use.
Security beyond the Vote
While we’retrained on how to secure the vote, its worth remembering that security of all aspects of a digital democracy is imperative. Here is a briefing from eWeek (a popular corporate IT trade pub) on the likely top security threats for 2008.
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Focus and the ROPI
I’vewritten in other postings how the OSDV Foundation’s focus makes it distinctive – a focus not primarily on talking, but on making breakthrough digital voting technology that people can see, touch, and try. That focus is also the basis of the
Keeping an Eye on the Ball...
Focus. That’s the real job of those of us chartered withstewardship of the OSDV Foundation. There are other important jobs for other folks - lobbying Congress for election reform, publishing substantive policy position papers, performing research, and commenting on proposed legislation or regulation – all are important aspects of advancing election reform, but more or less consist of talking, not making.
States' Testing of Voting Technology
Confidence - or maybe it’s about lack thereof, if you look at from the point of view of commentator Rady Ananda. While she produced another nicely compiled report today in OpEdNews.Com on several states that have conducted additional detailed studies of the security involved in software-driven election systems, she did little to inst
And On We Go...
Happy Holidays – we’re off and running! This is likely to be one of my longest postings of blather, but I feel it’s important to make this case early on-- Why OSDV? -- and then we can focus on other matters. So bear with me because I’d like to learn what you think in response.
As Chief Development Officer, I continually meet with business executives to discuss how the OSDV Foundation can raise the funding it needs to accomplish its mission. The good news is the level of enthusiasm I hear from these thought leaders.
What This Blog is About
For the first ever blog posting at OSDV, I thought I'd answer a couple basic questions about why we blog and what people can expect to find here - and what not to expect.