The Great Minnesota Recount is over, and today Al Franken will assume his seat as our junior senator. When I placed my signature on the certificate of election that concluded our 2008 U.S. Senate race, I could hear a collective sigh of relief from my fellow secretaries of state from around the country.
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Poll workers in Medina County were pleased with their new voting machines in 2005, but new research finds flaws in the design.
Audit logs were supposed to be the fail-safe of elections, an indestructible record of votes to assure the accuracy of electronic voting machines.
View Entire Article HereFollowing three months of investigation, California's secretary of state has released a report examining why a voting system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold) lost about 200 ballots in Humboldt County during the November presidential election.
But the most startling information in the state's 13-page report (.pdf) is not about why the system lost votes, which Threat Level previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system,
View Entire Article HereAt the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, a statistician made a forceful argument that her field can help us do a better job of ensuring fair and representative elections, but only if we decide to let it.
The recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting included a session entitled "Science for Public Confidence in Election Fairness and Accuracy" and, as might be expected, computer science made a significant appearance.
View Entire Article HereThe UConn VoTeR Center performed a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the AccuVote Optical Scan tabulators that were used in the August 2008 Connecticut Primary Elections.
UConn Memory Card Audit 2008
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