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- Scottish election suffers from e-voting woes
- The US isnt the only country with e-voting problems. In Scotland, elections last week were seriously marred by spoiled paper ballots, which led to technical problems with electronic counting systems that delayed election results, Computerworld reports. The supplier, DRS, told Computerworld UK that the problems were not about being...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Reluctantly, ID gives up punch card voting
- Idaho is the last state with old-fashioned manual punch card voting systems, but thats about to change. Ada County, Idaho is about to switch over to optical scan technology, the Idaho Stateman reports. County officials are not exactly pleased. Compared to the punch-card system, county officials say...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- CA counties and cities push for all-mail elections
- After all of the money spent, energy expended and ink spilled over electronic voting machines, it seems that there is a simpler way to vote that is more reliable and that could vastly improve participation: mail-in paper ballots. The Orange County Register interviewed a number of elections officials who...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- FL guv wants to junk all touch-screen machines
- In Florida, its back to the future. The state whose election irregularities sent the presidential election of 2000 to the Supreme Court and spawned a crisis in the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines wants to go back to all paper ballots. Gov. Charlie Crist will ask the Florida...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot, Charlie Crist, e-voting
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Supreme Court rejects appeal of FL voting machines
- The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider whether Floridas touch-screen voting machines need to have a paper trail in case of a recount, The Orlando Sentinel reports. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler appealled a lower-court ruling that the states touch-screen voting machines dont need to leave a paper ballot trail....
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Courts, Elections, Christine Jennings
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- FL legislature contends with problems with e-voting machines
- When the Florida Legislature convenes in March, the future of electronic voting machines will be one of the top items of business. While much of the country is registering fears about the ways votes are handled with the machines, Florida once again is in the limelight with an ongoing controversy...
- Tags: paper ballot, ballot, e-voting, Christine Jennings, E-Voting Machine
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Bad sample ballot may explain voting shortfall in FL
- Its looking increasingly likely that those 18,000 missing votes in a congressional race in Floridas Sarasota County really were never cast, rather than being lost in a e-voting snafu. One possible reason for the shortfall: In efforts to save money the county sent out a sample ballot that didnt match...
- Tags: ballot, sample ballot, Elections, State &, Local Govt, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- FL certifies challenged election
- In problematic House District 13, where about 18,000 cast ballots mysteriously didnt include votes for a hotly contested House race, state officials officially certified Republican Vern Buchanan the winner by 369 votes over Democrat Christine Jennings, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Democrats immediately followed with a lawsuit asking...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- FL county muddles through the paper trail
- In Sarasota County, FL, where 18,000 ballots registered no votes for Floridas 13th Congressional District House race, dozens of recount volunteers are scrutinizing pieces of paper, seeking mathematical errors in the computerized tabulation of votes, The Miami Herald reports. Its a meaningless ritual, said David Dill, a Stanford University...
- Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt, Elections, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Sarasota, FL, junks e-voting machines
- Things went so swimmingly on election day in Sarasota County, FL, that the county will abandon touch-screen voting in 2008 and return to paper ballots, the Orland Sentinel reports. The e-voting machines may have lost some 18,000 votes in a hotly contested congressional race. That was the number...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Elections Kathy Dent, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- In Kathleen Harris' district, a recount and probably a revote
- Katherine Harris and voting irregularities just go together like PB & J. Six years after Harris, Floridas secretary of state in 2000 and currently a US Representative, certified George W. Bush as president, the vote for who will succeed her in the House is completely screwed up.This time, electronic voting...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, ballot
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- In VA, paperless voting but no shortage of paper
- While it looks like the super-tight vote for Virginia senator will be settled once and for all today in favor of Democrat Jim Webb - giving the Democrats control of both the House and Senate - the past several days of counting have highlighted that elections in the age of...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections, ballot, Encoder
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- IN: Machines fail, hours extended, court fights galore
- In Indiana, voters are suffering serious difficulties at the polls. In Delaware County technical glitches in e-voting machines prevented voting in 75 precincts and a judge extended voting hours in the county until 8:40 local time. On a blog-like page on its website, the Indianapolis Star is posting...
- Tags: E-voting, ballot, voter
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- Canada adds another city to LED City list
- Welland, Ontario, is the latest municipal government to commit to the LED City initiative, under which cities from around the globe are converting lighting to light-emitting diodes. A retrofit of all streetlights is under way -- 50 have gone up so far and 50 more are...
- Tags: City, Light-emitting Diode, Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Good news on the Dell netbook front
- Just a quick update now that I have a minute to sit down tonight. I heard from my Dell rep this afternoon that, although it's not available on the Dell K-12 education pages, the Inspiron Mini 9 is available to all education customers in quantity. Here's...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blogging, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- LHC scientists get death threats
- So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Mainstream media writes Windows obitMS should have never...killed off XP. Especially when such a huge segment of the market is tired of being forced fed what they do not want.This article makes a good point about users beginning to realize that as long as they can hit the web rather...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), LIKE IT, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., mainstream media, Windows obit, Microsoft Windows Vista, obit, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
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