I ran across an interesting series of postings Michael Alvarez, a professor of political science at Cal Tech, who observed last October’s election in Argentina, particularly a pilot project for e-voting. It’s an interesting series of readings:
Buenos Aires e-voting pilot project
Election observation in Buenos Aires — understanding the process
Initial impressions of Buenos Aires e-voting pilot project: physical security (I didn’t realize until reading this about the involvement of the military in Argentine elections).
Testing, testing, testing; the Buenos Aires pilot project
Qualitative evaluation of Buenos Aires e-voting pilot project available, includes a link to an 11 page report in PDF.
Voting Machine Prototypes Put to Test in Argentina, from electionline.org.
I went with Ceci last October when she voted. From what I saw, the voting process went very smoothly. Then again, in comparison, I remember voting with the now infamous punch card ballot in south Florida during the 2000 election disaster and in 2004 with the e-voting devices where it seemed like most of the poll workers had no idea how the devices worked. South Florida is a place that really needs election observers!
February 16th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
A lawyer friend of mine is working on the electronic voting project. Every time I see him, he talks my ear off about the trials & tribulations of changing the system.
But I really think that instead of being a lawyer, he just wants to be in a rock band. When Lenny Kravitz was here last year, he complimented Luciano on his guitar playing. I want more lawyers like that!