Democracy Live Blog - Presents VOTING TECH TODAY
Explore the latest in voting technology with insights from the front lines.
The Case for Former Election Officials in Election Tech
By: Paul Caranci, Lori Augino, and Lance Gough of Democracy Live, Inc. Importance of Former Election Officials Serving in Leadership Roles with Private Sector Election Technology Providers The Elements of a Successful Election There are four elements necessary...
How Voting Matters to our Military and Why I Joined Democracy Live
General Robert (Abe) Abrams (Retired 4 Star, U.S. Army) Voting. Enshrined in our US Constitution and one of the most important components of our democracy. In my view, voting is the ultimate expression of an American’s citizen’s constitutional right to provide input...
Electronic Ballot Transmission
Background Federal and state law requires electronic ballot transmission for certain groups of voters. (Military, overseas, voters with disabilities). A majority of jurisdictions in CA comply with State mandated electronic ballot transmission laws by receiving ballots...
Democracy Live Teams With Dell
Democracy Live and Dell team to offer accessible balloting tablets to voters with disabilities. Read about it here: https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/customer-profiles-case-studies/solutions/delltechnologies-democracy-customer-profile.pdf
About Those ADA Machines….Where Are the Voters?
There are 8,800 jurisdictions in the U.S. responsible for administering elections. Each of those jurisdictions, representing over 100,000 voting locations, must have an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible voting machine as part of Help America Vote Act...
How Do Voters with Disabilities Vote From Home?
If close to 10% of voters have disabilities, yet less than 1% are voting on the machines, where are the voters? One answer could be that due to visual and mobility challenges, they cannot make it to the polls to vote on a machine. The vast majority of voters who...
Paper, Paper, Paper
All the rage is about going back to paper in elections. Good idea or bad, what's clear is who won that argument. In the last 15 years almost every jurisdiction that was "all DRE" has gone back to paper. The idea is that a hand recount of paper ballots is more accurate...
What is Plan B for Voting in America?
What is Plan B for Voting in America? As we saw in Florida in the November election, there are times when due to hurricanes, or other natural disasters voters simply cannot get to the polls. Beyond natural disasters, there may be attacks or threats of attacks at...
Voting “MANUFACTURER” is out. “COTS” is in.
In case you have not heard,the era of calling all providers of voting systems "manufacturers" is over; unless you want to call Dell, HP and Microsoft a voting system provider. COTS, or Commercially Off-The-Shelf, Windows 10 devices were deployed as ballot...