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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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S1E8 Episode 8 – Tampering with Voting Equipment in Mesa County, Colorado.
Tina Peters is serving a jail sentence for tampering with voting equipment when she was clerk in Mesa County, Colorado. The situation has become particularly political, but what actually happened in…
S1E7 Episode 7 – Fraud allegations in 2020 and 2024, what to make of them?
Typically, election security experts shy away from engaging with fraud allegations, because the theories are numerous and often lacking in evidence.But it's Christmas time, and you're probably…
S1E6 Special Episode – Election Office Hours with Professor Michael Alvarez
A special episode of How Voting Works.Last week, I was interviewed by Professor Michael Alvarez. We first met more than 20 years ago when we both worked with the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology…
S1E5 Episode 5 – Post-election audits to check the machines
How do we trust our ballot tabulators? Post-election audits, that's how.Risk-Limiting Auditshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_auditMore about Risk-Limiting…
S1E4 Episode 4 – Ballot Marking Devices and Voters with Disabilities
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…
S1E3 Episode 3 – Electronic Voting Machines and the Paper Ballot
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…
S1E2 Episode 2 – Voting Machines
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…
S1E1 Episode 1 – The Secret Ballot
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…
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How Voting Works has published 8 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in Technology.
How Voting Works is currently highly active with new episodes semi-annually. Average episode length is 20m.
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