Rob Saka, a University of Washington graduate, Air Force veteran and attorney who has worked for Microsoft and Meta, announced Tuesday that he is running for Seattle City Council. Saka… Read More
An initiative designed to change the way voters select candidates in Seattle has qualified for the November ballot. Initiative 134 aims to bring “approval voting” to Seattle primary ballots, where… Read More
A month ago, Microsoft was excited to announced its plans to grow its presence in Georgia and eventually turn Atlanta into one of the company’s largest hubs in the U.S.… Read More
The first U.S. election to make mobile voting available to all eligible voters went off without a hitch — at least according to the organizers of the pilot. An audit… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: Voting online is fast, convenient and also … vulnerable. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses app fiasco, we… Read More
Just two weeks after the meltdown of the Iowa Democratic Party’s caucuses because of a mobile app, mobile apps and election security are in the news again, this time with… Read More
Mobile voting is fast, convenient, and vulnerable. Those were my takeaways testing out the mobile voting pilot available to all voters in the greater Seattle region Tuesday. More than 1.2… Read More
Mobile voting is coming to the Seattle region, thanks in part to two homegrown companies. A partnership of local government officials, nonprofits, and tech companies will enable 1.2 million registered… Read More
The tech industry is taking an unprecedented interest in Seattle’s upcoming election, spending big and turning the national spotlight on local politics. Amazon’s headline-grabbing $1 million contribution last month is… Read More
Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s decision to continue running political ads this week, despite concerns about disinformation, in a passionate speech about free expression at Georgetown University. But a legal crackdown… Read More
Two counties in Oregon are piloting mobile voting in the upcoming special elections in November. It’s the latest in a series of tests that advocates for blockchain-based mobile voting hope… Read More
A hacker group with ties to the Iranian government attacked 241 Microsoft email accounts “associated with a U.S. presidential campaign, current and former U.S. government officials, journalists covering global politics… Read More
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, dozens of apps have cropped up seeking to arm voters with better information about candidates. Today, two of those apps announced plans… Read More
Americans were shocked to learn how misinformation was weaponized during the 2016 presidential race and experts believe it was just the beginning. As foreign adversaries become more sophisticated in this… Read More
Microsoft debuted a new set of technology tools Wednesday as part of the company’s initiative to make elections safer. The open-source ElectionGuard Software Development Kit aims to secure election results… Read More
In tech hubs across the country, the technology industry is taking a more active role in politics. It’s certainly true in Washington D.C., where many tech titans’ public policy teams… Read More
One of the biggest names in Seattle tech is a founding member of a new political action committee that wants to see fresh faces on the City Council this fall.… Read More
As the 2020 U.S. Presidential election approaches, Microsoft is getting ready to release several new tools to shore up security for political parties and candidates and at the ballot box.… Read More
Nov. 6 was a big day for Seattle startup Democracy Live. While the company was busy deploying cloud-based ballots and election guides to millions of Americans, it also closed a… Read More
Facebook and Twitter have been cracking down on political disinformation during the current election cycle, but there are signs that the fight against fake news has spread to new battlefields,… Read More
The U.S. is approaching a big midterm election, but unlike almost every other major election in the country’s history, this one has a new and worrying shadow hanging over it:… Read More
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Facebook and Google have asked for more time to respond to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission mandate that the companies comply with a city law governing political ads, according… Read More
A new Seattle startup wants to make civic engagement more mobile-friendly. Downticket is an app that provides guides to select races and allows users to donate to candidates they like… Read More
A new analysis by Facebook into whether Russia tried to interfere with last fall’s U.S. presidential election by purchasing ads on the social media network has found a connection between… Read More
The Iowa Caucuses are coming up on Monday, and for the first time, smartphones will play a role in calculating who wins. But it’s not a government app that party leaders… Read More