Here is a link to the wiki page I used for a lightning talk at Google I/O:
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I'm happy to report two pieces of good news for ElectionAudits. I'll be giving a talk in July at OSCON titled ElectionAudits: a Django App for Advanced Election Auditing.
You can use "OS09PG" as a discount code to get 15% off during OSCON registration.
Also, the April 2009 issue of Python Magazine has an interview with me about ElectionAudits. It is available from the site as a paid pdf download (68 pages in the April issue, which also includes other voting coverage, like Mitch Trachtenberg's open source Ballot Browser!). Thanks to these collaborations between open source geeks and visionary clerks like our own Hillary Hall, and Humboldt County's Carolyn Crnich, we're making significant progress!
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Tens of thousands of folks from all over gathered in Denver today for the famous
Martin Luther King Marade. What a joy to celebrate MLK's vision, and the progress that has been made.
Most local Unitarian Universalist congregations were represented, with contingents from Jefferson Unitarian, First Universalist, First Unitarian, and the UU Church of Boulder, among others.
Holly took a bunch of pictures as you can see and I've noted the
locations on the map for of a few of them
I also tracked our progress:
GPS tracking powered by InstaMapper.com
The UU men's group did our annual hike up to see the winter solstice sunrise this morning in Chautauqua meadow. It was cold, and there was a light layer of snow, but it was delightful. We got a clear view of the instant of sunrise at 7:17. John brought a nice collection of drums, Henry shot some video, and Strider and John chanted. Jon as always led us in a short ceremony to remember our roots and appreciate the year that has been and the year to come.
I brought along my shiny new open source Google Android phone, which tracked us and uploaded the data as we walked. You can zoom in on it below, and click for information on each data point, 30 seconds apart. Such a blend of the old and the new....
GPS tracking powered by InstaMapper.com
You can see the spot in google earth also. That lets you spin the view around and look back from the southeastern horizon up to the spot where we were standing.
The Daily Camera's Laura Snider wrote a very good piece on the Boulder audit at New election audit targets close races - County is the first to use a 'risk-limiting' audit.
See all the data and results of Boulder's audit for lots more details.
I think we were the first in Colorado to do a risk-limiting audit, and one of the first in the nation, but I know that e.g. in California's Marin county last February Philip Stark did a risk-limiting audit of a ballot measure, and his team is doing them in 4 counties (Yolo, Humboldt, Marin and Santa Cruz) for the recent general election.
I should also update my previous article on Audit Problems in Colorado, where I said that the Colorado audit rule doesn't require an audit of the actual counting process. As a result of the lawsuit last year, the Secretary of State did require, as a special condition of certification for several election system in Colorado, that counties audit some contests for a single actual election-day mail-in batch. I'm looking forward to seeing how the counties actually implemented that. See the conditions of use for the details.
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