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  • MoveOn.org Voter Registration Party

    https://justatheory.com/2004/07/voter-registration-party/

    We just hosted our first MoveOn.org voter registration party. (You are registered to vote, aren’t you? If not, register register here.) Julie did all the hard work of organizing the party, preparing the munchies, going through MoveOn’s rather overwhelming and confusing instructions to make things simple for the rest of us, and getting the lists of unregistered voters to call. She’s great at the organizational stuff, and that the party was a success is due to her hard work.

  • Voting Irregularities

    https://justatheory.com/2002/11/voting-irregularities/

    The city of San Francisco ought to be ashamed.

  • How Does One Protect Online Ballot Box Stuffing?

    https://justatheory.com/2006/02/online-voting-security/

    I need to set up an online voting system. It needs to be more robust than a simple polling system, in order, primarily, to prevent ballot box stuffing. Of course I realize that it’s impossible to prevent ballot box stuffing by a determined individual, but what I want to prevent is scripted attacks and denial of service attacks. The features I’ve come up with so far to prevent attacks are:

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