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TrustTheVote at Golden Gate Ruby Conference
I had been meaning to report on OSDV's visit to the Golden Gate Ruby Convention, where Greg presented on the TrustTheVote project. But instead TTV developer Chad Wooley has already done a much better than I could do, reporting on GoGaRuCo in his blog. Thank you Chad!
Which Accessible Voting "Model"? ... All of the Above
Continuing the story of accessible voting and the "we just build stuff" mantra of the TrustTheVote project, I have an example of a serious mis-understanding that can easily arise because of the jargon and procedural confusion I wrote about earlier.
Five Ways to Call a Voting Machine a ...
Today I have an excellent example of how important it is, and sometimes difficult, to maintain clarity around the technology that we're building in the TrustTheVote project, and what we are (and are not) doing in OSDV generally. This particular example illustrates how voting technology is already bedeviled by jargon, inconsistent terminology, and procedural confusion -- so that terminology and explanation that work for one group of people just don't work elsewhere.
Last 2008 Lessons Learned: Election Transparency
Election transparency was the third lessons-learned topic from the RSA panel that I wrote about earlier. As in the other two lessons learned, the Humboldt County Transparency Project is a great example, but here are two more, to show the small and the huge ends of the scale.