Paper trails, Voter IDs, and election machines

I wanted to call attention to another fine article in the "Freedom to Tinker" blog, this one by Dan Wallach.

The Audacity of Goal Setting

I had good conversations today, spiced with the reality check of some not so encouraging chats.

The good news is the ratio of supportive conversations to less encouraging chats is running nearly 10:1, so I consider this largely a case of signal-to-noise ratio.

Still, when speaking with supposed "veterans" of successful non-profit endeavors, I'm troubled by the more than occasional meta-message of "lower your expectations, son." (And thanks for the complement of paternal tone, but I'm far older than you can tell by my voice.)

Motivation Behind Adoption

An interesting article appeared Monday in the TechDirt community, keyed by Timothy Lee, discussing a point I've tried to make before and undoubtedly will try to make in the future. This point, nicely discussed by Tim, is about the distinction between e-voting and e-commerce.

Sequoia Warns Princeton's Dr. Felten to Not Analyze Machiine

Nearly unbelievable, but perhaps predictable. The Brad Blog reports on a warning letter that Dr. Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University has received from Sequoia Voting Systems, should he and a colleague (Andrew Appel) proceed to analyze the Company's AVC Advantage product.

Voters Must Count

ABC News and Facebook are running one of their daily (sometimes hourly) political polls this morning with this question: Is the plan for Michigan Democrats to re-run their primary on June 3 a good idea?

So far its running about 53% to 41% against the idea.

Fortfiying the Team

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that the OSDV Foundation has made a key hire on our senior management team. I want to take a post here to introduce to you our new Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Maureen Davis.

Experience Over Change

Finally, I'm back with a bunch of comments and posts to catch up on. The great news, in another post, is that we've added to our staff which will off load administriva and allow me to spend more time on development and keeping you informed here of our progress.

OSDV Blog Connecting with Technorati

So, we're connecting our blog to Technorati, and this post is to simply establish that link. More later on lots of developments of note.

Cheers
GAM

We've Finally Arrived, at Least on Wikipedia

Wiki This. For some, it's a sign of "arrival" in the digital community of the Internet: earning a page in the Wikipedia.

Approaching the Challenges of Digital Voting Technology

Provocative. That was a term used to describe the name of the Foundation when we began over a year ago. Why? Well, in part because we’re more – a lot more – than simply a public open source software project.