Reaching beyond your grasp . . .

"The critical path organization of the Apollo Project disclosed some two million tasks that had to be successfully accomplished before the human astronauts were to be returned safely to Spaceship Earth. NASA's Apollo management then put a scientifically and technically competent control group to work to identify all the approximately two million tasks, a million of which required technological performances the design, production, and successful operation of which had never before been undertaken by humans."
Critical Path, R. Buckminster Fuller

Get the Vote Out - and in the system correctly

"Our goal in designing a voting system should be to accurately capture the intent of the voters. If actual, real voters can't figure it out, then you need to redesign the ballot. If election officials need to create detailed instructions on how to vote, then the voting process has already failed."
Dan Wallach, Discovery Tech

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/11/03/tech-electronic-voting.html

A Key to Free and Fair Elections

"Usability - the ability of everyone to use the voting systems easily and effectively - is a key to free and fair elections." Whitney Quesenbery

Review Whitney Quesenbery's expert research on Voting and Usability:
http://www.wqusability.com/articles/voting-intro.html

Find Your Voice, Find Your Vote

The U.S. isn't the only country where electronic voting machines are causing problems. Usability experts have some harsh words about Finnish voting machines, which where trialed in municipal elections on Sunday and caused about 200 lost votes.

http://news.iwebtool.com/article_74963.html?mp=1