Ben Adida

Two VotingWorks tabulators.

VotingWorks everywhere!

Kid voting banner.

Some towns have a lot of fun with election day.

Me (Ben) standing in front of a security line, and behind that, VotingWorks tabulators. In a high school gym.

And polls are open in Londonderry.

Election eve is always a thrill. Just wish it wasn't so consistently right after daylights savings. An 18-20h day tomorrow!

so what you're saying is, you love IoT

I would hope it's not automatic, but that it lets you merge accounts with an extra email address control validation.

Letting the accounts be the same automatically would likely defy user expectation, even if email addresses are the same.

One of the popular assumptions people make is that mail voting favors Democrats. That is certainly not always the case. Yet another piece of evidence.

Bottom line – we should administer elections without partisanship. Help eligible voters vote. That's it.

I 💜 boring elections Socks and stickers.

Londonderry old ballot box with a poster saying " did you know? Londonderry is the second largest polling place in the United States."

Don't mess with Londonderry elections. 16,000+ voters, one high school gym, all in one day. 8 people dedicated to parking management.

Scanning test ballots in New Hampshire with a VotingWorks tabulator, screen reads "Your ballot was counted!"

Testing our latest voting equipment in New Hampshire today. So proud of what we've built at @voting.works. A robust tabulator, built on a secure foundation, and fully open source.

thanks to the alarm, it should be! Just, you know, a 4am wakeup call.

Oh no

Good news: my water leak alarm in the basement works well.

Bad news: I'll let you guess.

Maybe this one we can actually call a war game. 😞

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Instant pre-order, new book coming out from Cindy Cohn.

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Exactly! And so needed.

I'm a little bit giddy about Scrubs coming back.

Zombie gives a lecture on cyber-security best practices from 2010, including advice to avoid public wi-fi and USB charging stations, and to change passwords every 90 days. The audience is laughing.

It's 2026 and time to stop getting cybersecurity advice from the undead. 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

Ready to let go of zombie advice? Start at hacklore.org! 🔐

📣 Spread the word!! 📣

Now, there are things we can do to improve voting security and trust:

- mandate rigorous post-election audits

- voting machine source code disclosure

- beefing up federal standards to make voting systems less fragile to human error

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Two key facts:

- 95+% of voters cast paper ballots, even more in swing states. Hard to imagine how China hacks that.

- hand counting all ballots would be a nightmare of epic proportions in terms of time (many weeks), $, and consistency/fairness.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

oh I think I can still find ways to criticize PowerPoint :)

I'm sorry, Google Slide's "beautify this slide" turns the slide, including the title, into one big image?

In some ways Google's AI is super impressive. In other ways... oof this is pretty bad.

I've always wondered if pediatricians have super immunity and sure enough....

What about kindergarten schoolteachers? They must be next level.

I would like an in-depth look at the Canadian curling cheating scandal and a thorough analysis of how it compares to Maradona's hand of God. Someone please write this.

If you care about fair elections, then one disenfranchised eligible voter is just as bad as one ineligible voter being allowed to cast a vote.

We should be wary of solutions that claim to reduce ineligible voting – which almost never happens anyways – but actually end up disenfranchising voters.

an excerpt of a Slack message that says "cc @ben since you like QR codes"

My team knows me well.

I loved it.

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wow, that's unexpected and sad.

www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...

That's... A lot of socks.

A pretty cool little project from Brian on the VotingWorks software team.

Reliable QR code interpretation in Rust and Node.js

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