On October 21, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, a non-profit corporation, announced that it has completed work on freely available open source technology for vote-counting machines. “Open source” means that the software programs would be publicly available, so that … Continue reading
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is holding a partisan election for Mayor on November 3, 2009. The incumbent Mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, is the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican Parties (he is a Democrat, and he won the Republican nomination at the … Continue reading
The October 25 Los Angeles Times has this even-handed analysis of the issue of whether petition signatures should be private. The issue arose in Washington state, around the R-71 Referendum petition that forced a public vote on the bill passed … Continue reading
California State Senator Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) spoke at a forum, “What Ails California?”, held on the University of California Berkeley campus on October 23. She was a member of a panel that was discussing solutions to California’s government problems. The … Continue reading
According to this Reuters story, New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent more of his own money on his own election campaigns than anyone else in U.S. history. His three campaigns for Mayor, it is estimated, will have cost … Continue reading
