Benlog

So part of my research is on voting. And another part is on the privacy of genomic medical records (which, admittedly, I haven’t spoken about much on this blog yet). It’s not often that I find an article that combines both. But I guess it was inevitable:

In the coming era of personal genomics — when [...]

I voted for Obama. And against Proposition 8. And against Proposition 4.
I voted early, in person, not by mail. So my ballot is still secret.
Which means, maybe I didn’t vote for Obama. You’ll never know. That’s the power of the secret ballot. I can tell you how I voted, but I can’t prove it to [...]

Richard Drury recently completed his documentary “Challenges for Democracy”, which covers a number of voting issues. His work is available for sale, so if you support this kind of in-depth reporting, please go buy his DVD!
Richard has graciously agreed to release my segment on Open-Audit Elections under a Creative Commons license. Here it is, and [...]

bias explanation: Every now and then, folks are surprised that an election technology guy like me expresses his political opinion in the open. They think: ‘how can I trust this guy on election technology if he’s shilling for the Obama campaign?’ Here’s my take. I’m not getting paid by the Obama campaign, so I’m not [...]

T’is election season, so the press is covering voting. Cyrus again, this time on Salon, and with a fantastic article, and not just because it mentions Helios.

The Economist covers voting with cryptography, including some of my work. Good to see folks like the Economist paying attention… although the article misses the big point.
Voting with cryptography is not about making your vote more secret. It’s about making your vote more verifiable. For those who advocate traditional paper ballots, the point is that [...]

EndNote is a tool used commonly by a number of academics for adding endnote references to their papers. You keep an EndNote library of references, and you can easily add them to your Word document as you type your paper.
So, this is a classic example of a file format that becomes vastly more useful if [...]

You need to register to vote. Not later today, not tomorrow, now.

go register

Oh, you think you’re already registered?

verify that you are.

Oh, and a fun little video: