California elections official starts "verifiable voting" blog

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[It seems offline right now... --Declan]

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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:46:13 -0700
From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Subject: senior elections official starts first blog on VERIFIABLE voting!
Cc: "Warren Slocum" <warren () warrenslocum com>

A leading County Elections Official, Warren Slocum of San Mateo County, 
California, has become increasingly concerned about the integrity of some 
elections systems widely used throughout the United States for local, state 
and federal elections.  His concerns include their lack of complete audit 
trails and the secret, "proprietary" software used in some of these major 
voting systems, which dominate more and more of elections technology used 
in this nation's public elections.

To publicize the issues, concerns, dangers and solutions, he has begun the 
first blog devoted to VERIFIABLE voting technology:

> Jim -
>
> I started publishing a blog. It's the web's first blog devoted to verified 
> voting, election reform & democracy. You can check it out at -
>
> <http://electioncentral.blog-city.com>http://electioncentral.blog-city.com 
> - or there is a link from 
> <http://www.warrenslocum.com>http://www.warrenslocum.com
>
> WS


Warren has been the Chief Elections Officer and County Clerk-Recorder for 
San Mateo County for almost 17 years (since 1987; plus being County 
Assessor for about a decade).  Note:  These are NONpartisan elective 
offices (even many of his close friends don't know his party affiliation!).

Warren have served in numerous nonpartisan leadership positions, including 
as President of the California Elected Officials Association (organization 
of NONpartisan elected officials), served on the state Secretary of State's 
Internet Voting Task Force, and held numerous other public-service positions.

San Mateo County occupies the middle of the San Francisco Peninsula, 
between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and has a population of about 
700,000.

--jim
Jim Warren; jwarren () well com, columnist, writer & public-policy advocate
345 Swett, Woodside CA 94062; 650-851-7075; fax/off due to spam-glut

[self-inflating puffery: InfoWorld founder; Dr.Dobb's Journal first editor;
Soc.of Prof.Journalists-Nor.Cal.James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award;
Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (1992, its first year);
Playboy Foundation Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award (1994);
founded the Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conferences; blah blah blah]

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