Posts Tagged ‘news’

IEEE has prepared a draft of its election results reporting standard – which offers the promise of assisting everyone in the field with storing, reporting and analyzing election data. The deadline to comment and vote is January 15, 2015 – take a look!

Virginia’s Governor is asking the state General Assembly to approve $28 million to purchase and distribute upgraded voting technology (including voting machines and e-pollbooks) to the Old Dominion’s localities. It’s an important step.

NPR’s Zoe Mathews has the story of an ACLU lawsuit against New Hampshire’s prohibition on “ballot selfies.” Plaintiffs say it infringes on political speech, but I think there are lots of other opportunities to speak and the risk of vote buying or coercion is too great.

Outgoing Nevada SoS Ross Miller is the final subject for electionlineWeekly’s series of “exit interviews”.

From September 2011: A fun (if not entirely scientific) recent experiment on WNYC’s Radiolab points out the power of language to assist – and prevent – communication. This post looks at this phenomenon in the field of election administration.

A rare but crucial recount mistake flipped a Maine Senate race – and the race un-flipped when the mistake was discovered during a legislative hearing.

Former Harvard President and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers has a new op-ed that looks at infrastructure challenges and their impact on public confidence. His approaches to addressing those challenges apply to election administration, too.

FiveThirtyEight’s Stephen Pettigrew has a fascinating look at tie votes and the various procedures used to resolve them … ultimately, it’s not really an election administration issue unless you count envy that resolving an outcome could be that easy!

electionlineWeekly’s Mindy Moretti (my electiongeek brain twin, apparently) continues the focus on same-day registration with a long look at how it’s progressing (and faring) nationwide.

Illinois is about to enact sweeping election law changes, including making Election Day registration permanent, joining the ERIC exchange and broadening just about every other aspect of the voting process. It’s a big job and it’s only beginning.