Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Sec of State public hearing

There's been a bit of press around the California Secretary of State's public hearing into decertification of the GEMS version used in Humboldt County.

The big news is this: even current versions of the GEMS tabulation system don't note the deletion of decks of ballots.

Too many sources to link, but Kim Zetter's piece on Wired is a great start.

Ballot Browser update

Version 0.52 of Ballot Browser is now available here.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

CA SoS report on the Deck Zero Problem

The California Secretary of State's office has released their report on the Deck Zero problem that was (re)discovered as a result of the Humboldt County Election Transparency Project. The link is here:

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vs_premier.htm