@jennycohn1 cc @JoshData Unbelievable that we repeatedly don’t get this right, & so many want us not to get this right. Is there, or do we need to create, a public resource where we can gather and curate a set of best practices, good laws/regs, equipment, audit procedures, fair districting?
@jennycohn1 @JoshData A place where honest officials and citizens can find specific solutions to advocate for, incl providers of secure voting solutions. There’s vote.org , methods & approaches for drawing fair boundaries, GitHub approach to sharing legal code...
@jennycohn1 @JoshData There’s heavy marketing behind corruptible electronic voting machine$. Much less money to be made from handmarked paper ballots, optical scanners and risk-limiting audits. We have to shift the equilibrium to counter marketing $. A unified trusted source of information would help.
@jennycohn1 @JoshData Because there are so many ways to mess with fair elections, the information source would ideally address all or most of the issues. Because elections are so decentralized, people have to fight the particular kinds of poor decision making or corruption they face locally that year.
@jennycohn1 @JoshData But problems and solutions fall into manageable categories. An interactive checklist-and-report-card of voting health BEFORE an election in a state or community could allow people to demand fair conditions ahead of time rather than fighting the last war. Prep for 2020 starts now.
