Simon Willison’s Weblog

Pvote (via) Electronic voting machine software in 460 lines of highly readable Python (using Pygame), implemented by Ka-Ping Yee for his doctoral dissertation. Demonstrates prerendering, where as much of the UI as possible is defined in a separate ballot definition file.

# 22nd December 2007, 1:04 pm / electronicvoting, evoting, ka-ping-yee, pvote, pygame, python

Open Rights Group: Our first two years. ORG’s review of the past two years shows just how worthwhile a cause they have become—highlights include their hugely successful campaign against copyright term extension and their involvement in this year’s e-voting trials.

# 25th November 2007, 10:05 pm / copyright, digitalrights, elections, evoting, openrightsgroup, org

E-Voting Ballots Not Secret; Vendors Don’t See Problem. “You know things are bad when questions about a technical matter like security are answered by a public-relations firm.”

# 20th August 2007, 3:19 pm / edfelten, evoting, pr, security