How Voting Works

Nov 12 2024 4 ep. 17 mins 1

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A limited series podcast about the mechanics and technology of how we vote, mostly in the United States.

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Episode 4 – Ballot Marking Devices and Voters with Disabilities

Nov 12 2024 19 mins

In most democracies other than the United States, voters with disabilities are often required to forgo ballot secrecy in exchange for their right to vote. In the United States, that's considered unacceptable, and in fact it is illegal. This is why we have ballot-marking devices.SourcesCan Voters Detect Malicious Manipulation of Ballot Marking Devices?Voter Verification of BMD Ballo

Episode 3 – Electronic Voting Machines and the Paper Ballot

Oct 21 2024 18 mins

For a few years in the early 2000s, the US deployed fully electronic voting machines, also known as DREs, fairly broadly. Today, DREs are mostly gone, replaced by voter-verifiable paper ballots.Sources:https://www.wired.com/2004/11/computer-loses-4500-votes/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/us/comp

Episode 2 – Voting Machines

Oct 09 2024 19 mins

Let's talk about why we need voting machines in the US, and the specific types of voting machines we use and how they work.The Reality of Full Hand Counts: A Guide for Election Officials, by the Elections GroupHarris County voters wade through longest ballot in the state on first day of early voting, October 2022A Brief Illustrated History of Voting, by Professor Douglas W. JonesTH

Episode 1 – The Secret Ballot

Sep 24 2024 12 mins

Welcome to How Voting Works, a limited series podcast about the mechanics of how we vote in the United States, and in particular about the technology we use to cast our votes.This is Episode 1.The Secret Ballot is the most interesting, profound, and complicated aspect of modern elections. It's also the one requirement that makes everything about elections difficult.References:"One