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 Project.Professor Alvarez has a podcas...

How do we trust our ballot tabulators? Post-election audits, that's how.Risk-Limiting Auditshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_auditMore about Ris...

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...

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:

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 Ful...

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 inter...