https://scantegrity.org/blog The Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:31:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over on Freedom to Tinker, Ed has some images of contested ballots from the Minnesota recount. Minneosta Public Radio offers a host of other images. Minnesota law states: If a ballot is marked by distinguishing characteristics in a manner making it evident that the voter intended to identify the ballot, the entire ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/11/22/if-they-were-my-ballots-to-count/ I had meant to post this yesterday, but I woke up not feeling well and spent the day in bed. I see that Ben Adida and Avi Rubin have already posted their experiences. Aleks Essex also posted his experiences a few weeks ago when he was a worker for the ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/11/06/my-day-as-an-election-judge-in-the-2008-election/ I vote in Maryland tomorrow. Here's my ballot: [caption id="attachment_830" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="2008 Baltimore County Specimen Ballot"][/caption] You can also download it in PDF. Only 2^44 unique marking patterns this time. Anyone want to determine how many legal patterns there are using my handy guide? I'm also serving as an election judge. I'm ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/11/03/my-2008-ballot/ Tomorrow Stefan and Emily will be giving out a Scantegrity-based survey to passers by at their respective universities.  We are hoping to get some interesting information out of this little experiment, as well as more data for testing purposes. If you're interested in the results (which will be posted on Wednesday), ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/11/03/election-2008-scantegrity-survey/ https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/31/now-boys-and-girls-remember/ From our friend Dr. James Heather: Research Officer in E-voting (3.5 years, fully funded) http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/JT084/Research_Officer/ Department of Computing University of Surrey, UK The E-voting group at Surrey is looking for a Research Officer to work on an EPSRC-funded project on Trustworthy Voting Systems (EP/G025797/1), starting in January 2009. This project, run in conjunction with Birmingham and ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/31/job-opportunity-research-officer-in-e-voting/ Source: CBS News https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/31/some-voter-confidence-figures-heading-in/ Poorvi and Stefan have been busy bees promoting Scantegrity in the press recently. However some of the more important concepts can't be captured in sound bytes. This is where the streaming video lecture medium comes into play: For the general GW press page from this event, visit here. Presentation slides: [PPT] https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/30/gwu-video-lecture-on-scantegrity/ Poorvi was interviewed recently on NPR affiliate WAMU radio. Listen to the streaming interview (runs 1'26"): Windows Media [asx] Real Audio [ram] Reporter Matt Bush says during the piece, The system would put more of an onus on voters to detect fraud but Vora and her colleagues see that as more empowering--not ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/28/scantegrity-on-wamu-radio/ We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the scantegrity.org website. This renewal has been undertaken to reflect both the growth of the Scantegrity project, as well as to reflect the shift in focus to invisible ink (i.e., from Scantegrity I to Scantegrity II). Likewise our project blog which was hosted ... https://scantegrity.org/blog/2008/10/28/scantegrity-website-relaunch-2/