Many, many kudos to my friend Joe, who is part of a multi-site team that’s just been funded ($7.5 million!!!) to establish “A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Accurate and Transparent Elections” (ACCURATE). (See Joe’s blog post on the subject.)

This is a huge step and is the first center of its kind, I believe. Since 2000 we’ve all been feeling both the need to understand e-voting issues and, especially in California, fight the rush to bring faulty new voting technologies to the rescue. Bottom line: the solution to bad low-tech voting (i.e. hanging chads) is not bad high-tech voting.