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educatedguesswork.org | ||
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benlog.com
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| | | | | It's voting season! Which means everyone is asking questions like: wait, why can't I vote online? how hard can voting really be? shouldn't this all be open-source? isn't it just as easy to hack paper voting as electronic voting? is Russia hacking our voting machines? why do we even need voting machines when other countries... | |
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rcoh.me
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| | | | | Given the level of distrust in election systems in recent years, I became curious about verifiable voting systems - systems in which you can ensure that your vote was really counted, and counted correctly. Systems in which everyone (or at least interested parties) can verify that election results precisely reflect the votes cast. The verifiable voting system I'll describe is pretty close to "regular" voting for voters. They don't need to care the election is e2e verified, they just need to vote like normal. | |
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freedom-to-tinker.com
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| | | | | Minnesota election officials are hand-counting millions of ballots, as they perform a full recount in the ultra-close Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. Minnesota Public Radio offers a fascinating gallery of ballots that generated disputes about voter intent. A good example is this one: A scanning machine would see the Coleman and Franken bubbles both filled, and call this ballot an overvote. But this might be a Franken vote, if the voter filled in both slots by mistake, then wrote "No" nex... | |
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www.almanacnews.com
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| | | Menlo Park is seeking applicants for sixteen vacant commission seats. The Woodside Fire Protection District is hosting a 100-year commemoration and grand reopening of Station 7 on March 22. | ||
