People might be asking, what it is the meaning of financially responsible? This question is found to be a complex one and the answer for this also the complex. But the meaning of this is simply truth....Read More
With the internet in our palms, we come to know about the various developments and creative ideas that have come into existence in the current scenario. A few years back paying money through your phon...Read More
Early voters in New Mexico report that when they choose one candidate, the voting machine sometimes displays a vote for a different candidate. This is reminiscent of the Texas problems Dan Wallach ...Read More
It appears, if this report pans out, that there were massive systemic failures across Maryland involving Diebold AccuVote-TS machines last November; problems including lost votes, multiple machine fai...Read More
Paul Velleman at left2right has an interesting analysis of the exit poll data from the November presidential election. His conclusions: (1) Discrepancies between exit polls and votes cannot be expla...Read More
More information has surfaced in a letter from ES&S to Guilford County, NC, Board of Elections (provided by Joyce McCloy, PDF here and text here): We would like to explain in further technica...Read More
The statewide recount on a measure to remove segregation-era language from Alabama’s constitution is turning up variations from the official canvass, with changes exceeding 100 votes in at least thr...Read More
One of the underreported stories from last week’s election was the effect of long waiting lines at polling places. Many polling places in Ohio, for example, had lines of three hours or more. Though ...Read More
Just in case you thought that lawsuits about pregnant chads were the worst possible election outcome, here’s a story about the consequences of e-voting without a proper paper trail. A bug in e-votin...Read More
(This is a highly abbreviated version of a forthcoming paper) Approximately one year ago, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley handed down the first open source software mandate (PDF) of ...Read More