How Voting Works

How Voting Works

Ben Adida

Episodes 7
Avg. Duration 19m
Activity Highly Active
Since Sep 2024
Latest Episode Dec 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Semi-Annually
Format
Episodic
Hosting
feeds.buzzsprout.com

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About This Podcast

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

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Recent Episodes

S1E7 Episode 7 – Fraud allegations in 2020 and 2024, what to make of them?

Dec 20, 2025 33m

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

Oct 09, 2025 49m

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

May 16, 2025 11m

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

Nov 12, 2024 19m

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

Oct 21, 2024 18m

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

Oct 09, 2024 19m

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

Sep 25, 2024 12m

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 7 episodes since September 2024, covering topics in Technology.

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How Voting Works is currently highly active with new episodes semi-annually. Average episode length is 19m.

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