Yearly Archives: 2021

Initial Launch of Election Systems Integrity Institute – November 19, 2020

On November 19, 2020, over 600 people attended an online summit for an initial launch of the Election Systems Integrity Project. The attendees included citizens, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, mothers, fathers, college students, and others, who were committed to research and education to advance fair and transparent elections. The findings and discussion from that meeting laid […]

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Ancient Greeks Voted to Kick Politicians Out of Athens

Politicians have not been liked for a long time, dating back to ancient times. As Beth Gannon, an Archaeology Correspondent at the Smithsonian, writes in her article, Ancient Greeks Voted to Kick Politicians Out of Athens if Enough People Didn’t Like Them , “In the 1960s, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery in the history of […]

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Where It All Began

Voting has been around for a long time. One of the earliest historical evidence of voting is documented on a coin from Pompeii. As Dr. Virginia Phillips has documented, “This coin, a denarius of Publius Nerva dated to 113-112 BC,  is probably the best depiction of voting that survives antiquity. It illustrates the process used both […]

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