LOS ANGELES
How prepared are we at this time for the May 17th LA Mayoral Election, and what changes have been made to avoid a repeat of the problems we encountered in the recent Primary Mayoral Election? Listen to an interview (audio file) with Frank Martinez, LA's City Clerk, to hear his response to these queries under the Wednesday, May 4 listing "Update from the City Clerk" on KPCC's program Talk of the City.
NEW YORK CITY
New York City 2005 Elections included a Primary for partisan offices in September and a General Election in November.
The Board of Elections in the City of New York website provides useful information about voting on Election Day, including a video instructing how to operate the lever voting machine, which was used in these elections.
BUENOS AIRESMichael Alvarez was invited to participate as an international observer in the evaluation of the electronic voting pilot project October 23, 2005.
- Qualitative Evaluation of the project by Michael Alvarez
- Email invitation from the General Director and National Director
- Executive summary of the project
- Agenda of the three day event
- Participation data and statistics:
- Material provided to the evaluation group, including electronic demonstrations of the voting technologies, documentation and source code
- Strategic Plan, 2005 Electronic Voting Pilot
- Diseno del Circuito Elector (Design of the electing circuit)
- Diseno Muestral (Design Sample)
- Experiences Internacionales de Prueba Piloto (International Experiences of Voting Pilot Project)
- Glosario (Glossary of terms)
- Registro Electronico con Almacenamiento digital externo (REA: Electronic Registry with external digital storage)
- Registro Electronico con Verificacion impresa (REV: Electronic Registry with printed verification)
- Lector Optico de Boleta individual (Individual optical ticket reader)
- Lector Optico Planilla de seleccion multiple (Multiple selection list optical reader)
- Map of selected e-voting locations
- LOB: Reglamentacion del Proceso Electoral (Optical Ticket Reader: Regulation of the Electoral Process)
- LOP: Reglamentacion del Proceso Electoral (Multiple selection list optical reader: Regulation of the Electoral Process)
- Diseno Metodologico de Observacion Etnografica (Methodological design of ethnographic observation)
- Diseno de participacion de las Organizaciones Sin Fines de Lucro (Design of Participation of Non-profit Organizations)
- Propuesta y Fundamentos (Proposal and Foundations)
- Protocolo de Fallas (Protocol of Faults)
- REA: Reglamentacion del Proceso Electoral(REA: Regulation of the Electoral Process)
- REV: Reglamentacion del Proceso Electoral(REV: Regulation of the Electoral Process)
- Flash demo of 'LOB: Lector Optico de Boleta Individual'
- Flash demo of 'LOP: Lector Optico de Planilla de seleccion multiple'
- Flash demo of 'REA: Registro Electronico con Almacenamiento digital externo'
- Flash demo of 'REV: Registro Electronico con Verifcacion impresa'
Images from election observations from CA & Buenos Aires
